From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 24 18:44:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AAF1065673 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas@goodking.ca) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A37A8FC18 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas@goodking.ca) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 5so214850qwd.7 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.74.2 with SMTP id s2mr1835763vcj.37.1245869088419; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goodking.goodking.ca (host-216-211-94-41.tbaytel.net [216.211.94.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 38sm1027530yxe.142.2009.06.24.11.44.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Thomas Abthorpe From: Thomas Abthorpe Organization: FreeBSD.GoodKing.Ca To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:44:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200906181114.43935.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <200906240956.10625.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090624182400.GC15815@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20090624182400.GC15815@comcast.net> X-Face: /|[9,PbEOB6g>?2^*Sc|"~6:Ro"O>Nv\Rfkv\42g)=?utf-8?q?TuAYG=26+bD=5CpCJTX31s=5Fp=7Bc7=5D5a=2ED=2E=0A=09Y?=@QddKu_I[XB8; euK=^[=L1I#]rgi[0jgz^4qCTwlj]3kJ)]vc}O"HrA14hN)=?utf-8?q?aXewJPTi=7C=0A=09Pt=7BS3=23Vw4x-?="/:& Cc: Charlie Kester Subject: Re: [RFC] New category proposal, i18n X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:44:49 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 24, 2009 02:24:01 pm Charlie Kester wrote: > >On June 23, 2009 04:36:08 pm Charlie Kester wrote: > >> On Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 12:05:55 PDT Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > >> >Localization is a subset Internationalization, so the new category > >> >becomes a catch all for both entities. > >> > >> If i18n is too cryptic or too alphanumeric, and internationalization is > >> too long, why not go with "nls"? > > > >I personally think that nls is equally as cryptic as i18n or l10n. > > But it has the virtue of being purely alphabetic. and thus meets one of > the objections that have been raised. > > I don't put much weight on the "cryptic" argument myself.  I expect that > anyone who is doing internationalization work is familiar with all of > these  terms -- and if not, they need to *make* themselves familiar with > them. ack ack, point well taken. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpCdBsACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qBZDQCdHDTLXYsYKyK4FXo0xL9VRfdT lIAAnRTOr2q4jkUtiMKwRW7q/0ARTrCT =Sy7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----