Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:09:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: John Murphy <sub01@freeode.co.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I18N/L10N? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0501081959080.27246-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <jh81u01d275n40qkjj4uop70gss64mi9b8@4ax.com>
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, John Murphy wrote:
> I'd like to know where, when, who originated the I18n type abbreviation.
> I think they're really cool but I haven't seen much usage beyond FreeBSD
> world. I want to start using v13s as an abbreviation for - any guesses?
I believe they were defined by XPG3 -- X/open Portability Guide version 3
(maybe around 1989).
I don't know what v13s is.
egrep -i '^v[[:alnum:]]{13}s$' /usr/share/dict/*
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