SWAT Feature Details and Discussion

simo idra at samba.org
Mon Apr 27 12:19:14 GMT 2009


On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:43 +0200, Ludolf Holzheid wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-26 11:45:15 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Quoting Ricardo (rvelhote at gmail.com):
> > 
> > > Internationalization (i18n)
> > > $ Not much to say here
> > 
> > I have..:-)
> > 
> > [..]
> > They had good i18n and localization was completed
> > [..]
> 
> I know this is off-topic, but there is something "I always wanted to
> know but was afraid to ask":
> 
> What's the exact difference between i18n and l10n?
> 
> They seem to be two words for the same thing to me (as a nation is a
> location w.r.t. languages, monetary formatting and so on), but you
> distinguish between them.

Roughly:

i18n == ability to handle input/output in multiple formats (for example
using UTF-8 so that you can support multiple alphabets)

l10n == translation of text interfaces and support of locales to change
output depending on the locale settings

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>



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