Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:44:35 -0400 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [RFC] New category proposal, i18n Message-ID: <200906241444.43132.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090624182400.GC15815@comcast.net> References: <200906181114.43935.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <200906240956.10625.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090624182400.GC15815@comcast.net>
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-----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-----
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