i18n

• I18N, I18n

A numeronym representation of internationalization as i followed by 18 more letters, followed by n.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪntəˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪntɚˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/

i18n (uncountable)

1. (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!

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.

• a11y
• c14n
• g11n
• L10n
• p13n
• k8s

• Internationalization and localization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia