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27 August
Posted in Code, Linux, Monkey Business
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What does l10n, i18n or m4 mean ?

I have never understood what l10n stands for, nor i18n, nor m4 for that matter. But reading a good online book about autotools, there are a couple of words explaining that in fact m4 stands for Macro, which is m+4 chars. l10n is localization written as  “l+strlen(ocalizatio)+n”. Fun. Since I [...]

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