i18n
See also: I18N
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
A numeronym representation of internationalization as i followed by 18 more letters, followed by n.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪntəˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɪntɚˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
Noun edit
i18n (uncountable)
- (software engineering) Abbreviation of internationalization.
- 2002, David LeBlanc, Michael Howard, Writing Secure Code, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 440:
- Don't convert between Unicode and other code pages/character sets. If you follow these two rules, you'll run into few I18N-related security issues; in fact, you can jump to the next chapter if these two rules hold true for your application!
- 2008, Philipp Weitershausen, Web Component Development with Zope 3, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 145:
- After our tour through the translation components we can now make our Python code “i18n-aware”. A typical task is identifying all the places where a (Unicode) string needs to be turned into an i18n message or where the appropriate TAL […]
- 2015, Chandermani, AngularJS by Example, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 389:
- AngularJS comes with support for I18n and L10n for date, number, and currency. No surprises here!
Usage notes edit
The spelling i18n is preferred to I18N and I18n as the uppercase I (pronounced “eye”) is indistinguishable from a lowercase l (pronounced “el”) in many sans serif fonts.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Internationalization and localization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia