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At 4:39 PM +0800 2/21/02, Autrijus Tang wrote:
>1) How is this different from -unicode?
>2) Are l10n issues candidates for discussions as well?
>3) The use.perl announcements states 'using Perl for i18n' as the purpose.
>    What, exactly, does this mean?

Hi,

   Good questions. Perhaps the definitions quoted below will give some 
additional background. It would seem that i18n, and l10n are the 
topics of most interest to PERL coders. Unicode would be just a part 
of the problems to be solved.

Holmes Boroughf


From:  Sun Home > Developers > GADC > FAQ  at
     http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc/faq/general.html
>1.2 What are Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization?
>     Globalization is a product development and marketing approach 
>which ensures that
>software products are usable in the world's major markets, and is acheived
>through a combination of internationalization and localization.
>     Internationalization is the process of designing and 
>implementing software to
>transparently handle different cultural and linguistic conventions without
>additional modification.
>     Localization is the process of developing cultural-specific 
>software components
>and translations that can be accessed by internationalized software 
>at runtime.
>Software must be internationalized before it is localized.
>
>1.3 What are G11N, I18N, and L10N?
>Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization are commonly 
>abbreviated as g11n, i18n, and l10n, using the number of letters 
>between the first and last letter as a placeholder.
>

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