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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/*

 Jeremy C. Reed

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