Having gone through CP/M - DOS - Windows 1.x up to today's versions I can say i18n or internationalization was never a big term at Microsoft. They either talk about globalization for internationalization or localization itself - localizable coming closest to i18n. I doubt you will find any i18n references, maybe you will find g11n or l10n somewhere.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Caplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Historians- what is origin of i18n, l10n, etc.? > At 08:35 AM 10/10/2002 -0700, Rick wrote: > >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. > > I registered i18n.com around 94 or so, and the fellow, whose name I am trying hard to recall (first name JR, Australian or British IIRC, red hair), seemed to indicate the coinage was quite some time before that and he was very surprised when I told him how extensive the usage was by then. > > I'm a jonny-come-lately when it comes to unix and other standards history... is there an searchable archive of windows standards anywhere? How about a cvs server of code? It seems to me that i18n or variants could have made it into code as a function name almost immediately, or possibly even before being put into a standards doc.... > > It seems to me that l10n was extant by the time I came to CA ~ 1992. > > Perhaps Ken Lunde can shed some light - he surely came across a lot of early docs while writing his first book, which was a republication of an online archive he maintained I think. > > Barry >
