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catdad 💖 @tcql@octodon.social

hi i'm a software engineer and i worked in the web for a good 8 years before i ever realized what the abbreviations i18n and l10n (internationalization and localization) stood for

literally i knew what they were *about*, but thought the numbers had something to do with some funky standards body or some shit

numeronyms of this form are bad so so so so bad don't
just
don't

synaesthetica @synaesthetica

@tcql How do you get "ocalizatio" from "10"?

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catdad 💖 @tcql@octodon.social

@synaesthetica it's 10 letters.

ng0 @ng0@toot.cat

@tcql @synaesthetica wow! that's the only system behind the 10,11,18 etc? Just the number of letters? I knew what they are for a long time, but I never looked into why exactly these weird names were picked.

catdad 💖 @tcql@octodon.social

@ng0 @synaesthetica lol right! that's why i think it's terrible! nobody can intuitively understand what it means

ng0 @ng0@toot.cat

@tcql @synaesthetica wild.

thanks!

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