At 4:39 PM +0800 2/21/02, Autrijus Tang wrote:
1) How is this different from -unicode?
2) Are l10n issues candidates for discussions as well?
3) The use.perl announcements states 'using Perl for i18n' as the purpose.
What, exactly, does this mean?
Hi,
Good questions. Perhaps the definitions quoted below will give some
additional background. It would seem that i18n, and l10n are the
topics of most interest to PERL coders. Unicode would be just a part
of the problems to be solved.
Holmes Boroughf
From: Sun Home > Developers > GADC > FAQ at
http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc/faq/general.html
1.2 What are Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization?
Globalization is a product development and marketing approach
which ensures that
software products are usable in the world's major markets, and is acheived
through a combination of internationalization and localization.
Internationalization is the process of designing and
implementing software to
transparently handle different cultural and linguistic conventions without
additional modification.
Localization is the process of developing cultural-specific
software components
and translations that can be accessed by internationalized software
at runtime.
Software must be internationalized before it is localized.
1.3 What are G11N, I18N, and L10N?
Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization are commonly
abbreviated as g11n, i18n, and l10n, using the number of letters
between the first and last letter as a placeholder.
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