At 06:35 PM 10/10/2002 +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote: >Radovan Garabik wrote: >> Google is your friend :-) >> "i18n" is first mentioned in USENET on 30 nov 1989,
Here is a mention from 1989-12-02 11:24:11 PST only 3 days later: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=i18n+1988&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=454%40longway.TIC.COM&rnum=7 that says: > 5. Messaging > > The UniForum internationalization (I18N) folks brought forward a > proposal for a messaging facility to be included in P1003.1b. > The working group decided that it needs some more work but will > go into the next draft. > > [Editor's note -- The problem being solved here is that > internationalized applications store all user-visible strings in > external files, so that vendors and users can change the > >December 1989 Standards Update IEEE 1003.1: System services interface > > > - 5 - > > language of an application without recompiling it. The UniForum > I18N group is proposing a standard format for those files.] This indicates to me that UniForum might be a place to look for earlier references.... This is a very interesting thread from 1990: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1990Aug30.115608.3729%40tsa.co.uk&rnum=20&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Di18n%2B1988%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D1990Aug30.115608.3729%2540tsa.co.uk%26rnum%3D20
