i18n
English
WOTD – 31 July 2016
Alternative forms
- I18N
- I18n
Etymology
A numeronym representation of internationalization as i followed by 18 more letters, followed by n.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪntəˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪntɚˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
Noun
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!
- 2002, David LeBlanc, Michael Howard, Writing Secure Code, Pearson Education (→ISBN), page 440:
Usage notes
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
- a11y
- g11n
- L10n
- p13n
Further reading
Internationalization and localization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia