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Re: Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months

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Internationalization (i18n). Localization (l10n). Globalization (g11n). Localizability (l12y). Mozilla has a good article explaining the distinction: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-...

Oh god, let's not start a10g words this way. a10g means "abbreviating" by the w1y. I promise it will not burn up too many more calories of soylent to just type it out, nor will it take much longer.

H0a h0a h0a h0a h0a, I like that.

Re: Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months

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Oh god, let's not start a10g words this way. a10g means "abbreviating" by the w1y. I promise it will not burn up too many more calories of soylent to just type it out, nor will it take much longer.

What gets me most is whether you have to count all the letters of the word, or just those left out.

J2t t3e l2t o1t

It’s infuriatingly annoying ;-)

Re: Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months

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Isn't it "i18n"? We put all the translations in a spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDP... . We didn't like the idea of storing in any more complex than a csv file. All changes are shown to us in a diff before we merge, the csv is then downloaded and the i18n files created automatically after we merge the branch. We've never had a single instance of abuse in over 10 years.

This covers strings, but what do you do about right-to-left languages, cultural differences in (say) information density, date pickers, color usage, UI preferences, emoji use, whatever? Did you make a conscious decision to only localize strings?

Re: Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months

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Isn't it "i18n"? We put all the translations in a spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDP... . We didn't like the idea of storing in any more complex than a csv file. All changes are shown to us in a diff before we merge, the csv is then downloaded and the i18n files created automatically after we merge the branch. We've never had a single instance of abuse in over 10 years.

Internationalization (i18n). Localization (l10n). Globalization (g11n). Localizability (l12y). Mozilla has a good article explaining the distinction: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-...

Oh, it's supposed to be a lowercase “L”? I thought it was a vertical bar (“pipe”). Pipe ten nanoseconds? I wish HN used a more readable font.

Re: Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months

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Isn't it "i18n"? We put all the translations in a spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDP... . We didn't like the idea of storing in any more complex than a csv file. All changes are shown to us in a diff before we merge, the csv is then downloaded and the i18n files created automatically after we merge the branch. We've never had a single instance of abuse in over 10 years.

Internationalization (i18n). Localization (l10n). Globalization (g11n). Localizability (l12y). Mozilla has a good article explaining the distinction: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-...

These abbreviations are among the stupidest trends in tech. We should learn from the Germans and embrace long words

Re: Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months

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Internationalization (i18n). Localization (l10n). Globalization (g11n). Localizability (l12y). Mozilla has a good article explaining the distinction: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-...

Aka cute abbreviations that are impossible to remember or understand (c62d).

Like the actual meaning of PCMCIA cards:

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms!

Re: Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months

#27

Isn't it "i18n"? We put all the translations in a spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDP... . We didn't like the idea of storing in any more complex than a csv file. All changes are shown to us in a diff before we merge, the csv is then downloaded and the i18n files created automatically after we merge the branch. We've never had a single instance of abuse in over 10 years.

Internationalization (i18n). Localization (l10n). Globalization (g11n). Localizability (l12y). Mozilla has a good article explaining the distinction: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-...

f4k this crap. Spell it out.
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