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    Dr. International

    Thoughts on software globalization and internationalization.

    April 2021 | Dr. International

    Culture data shouldn’t be considered stable
    Culture data shouldn’t be considered stable
    Shawn Steele Shawn Steele April 12, 2021 Apr 12, 2021 04/12/21
    Realizing that people's preferences change and that those preferences impact data output and consumed by computers. By remembering the context of an operation we can avoid corruption and confusion of our data. Understanding when data is intended for human readability or consumption by another machine avoids problems with data confusion.
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    Welcome to “Dr. International”
    Welcome to “Dr. International”
    Shawn Steele Shawn Steele April 1, 2021 Apr 1, 2021 04/1/21
    Hi!  We've created this space to share some thoughts about software internationalization. Internationalization is a really long word, so we've truncated the URL to just "i18n".  There are 18 letters between the "i" and the "n" in "internationalization", so i18n is a bit of a shortcut.  (Another common abbreviation in this space is l10n ...
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