From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-05-11T01:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby's Future?

On 2002.05.11, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 12:43:09AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> > Ruby M17N will support mulitple encodings.  And also, ruby
> > already supports Unicode in UTF-8.  However, still lacks L18N
> > feature.
> 
> What is L18N?

I18N = Internationalization
M17N = Multilingualization
L10N = Localization
G11N = Globalization

A10N = Abbreviation  ;-)

-- Dossy

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