The earliest reference I can find to "i18n" in my old e-mail trail is the
following e-mail to the "sun!unicode" mail list by Glenn Wright. This was
Oct 5, 1989. By that time, the term was definitely current, as Mr. Hiura
suggests.
Rick
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> From upheisei!attunix!sun!glennw Thu Oct 5 15:59:05 EDT 1989
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 89 12:46:22 PDT
> From: sun!glennw (Glenn P. Wright)
> To: sun!unicode
> Subject: Next Unicode meeting
>
> Time:
>
> Monday Oct 9th. 4pm
>
> Place:
> Sun Microsystems, Building 5, 2550 Garcia Avenue
>
> Agenda:
>
> Discussion of Current X3L2 proposal status
> Discussion on future Unicode committee organisation
> Joe will have updates on the Unicode chart
> (depending on the As pitching rate)
> Liason reports -
> X/Open,
> Joint i18n meeting,
> Ad Hoc meeting in Peking (oops).
>
> Other (could be lots of this)
>
>
> How to get there
>
