http://kenji.blog/en/tags/i18n/Recent content in I18n on kenji.blogHugo -- gohugo.ioenkenjinoteFri, 07 Apr 2023 00:42:02 +0900http://kenji.blog/en/p/i18n%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:42:02 +0900http://kenji.blog/en/p/i18n%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF/<img src="http://kenji.blog/p/i18n%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF/img.png" alt="Featured image of post What is i18n?" /><h1 id="what-is-i18n">What is i18n? </h1><p><code>i18n</code> is an abbreviation for <code>Internationalization</code>. Since <code>Internationalization</code> is long, it is abbreviated as <code>i18n</code> because there are 18 letters between the first <code>i</code> and the last <code>n</code>.</p> <p>It is often used in the context of internationalizing software.</p> <p>The main target items in internationalization include the following: <sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p> <ul> <li>Character sets (standard character codes, etc.)</li> <li>Text direction (left to right, right to left, top to bottom towards the left, etc.)</li> <li>Text / Wording</li> <li>Fonts</li> <li>Formatting <ul> <li>Numbers (decimal point characters, thousands separator characters, number of digits to group by, etc.)</li> <li>Date and time (how to format year, month, and day; differences in calendars used such as Islamic/Gregorian/Hebrew/Japanese calendars, etc.)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Time difference in date and time information</li> <li>Currency information</li> </ul> <div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes"> <hr> <ol> <li id="fn:1"> <p><a class="link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Internationalization and localization - Wikipedia</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p> </li> </ol> </div>