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Doing the opposite is quite inconvenient indeed. When you see .hr, Croatia is probably the last thing you would think of. It's the first two letters of Croatia
by r3bl 7y ago
Doing the opposite is quite inconvenient indeed.
When you see .hr, Croatia is probably the last thing you would think of. It's the first two letters of Croatia spelled in Croatian ("Hrvatska"). There are only so many ways to shorten a word to two characters, and .ca, .cr, and .co were all taken. I guess they could have went with .ct, but they've decided on .hr instead.
Similarly, .flights is always gonna be more useful to have control over compared to .vuelos (same, but in Spanish).
- chillacy 7y agoInconvenient... for English speakers. But more convenient for locals. Seriously l9n is still an important aspect of software.
- wutbrodo 7y ago> l9n is still an important aspect of software. Is this different from l10n?
- kgwgk 7y agoApparently using l9n instead of l10n is common enough to deserve a footnote in https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/java-cookbook/0596001703/ch14.html https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/java-cookbook/059600170... Sometimes written L9N by those who can’t count, or who think that L10N that looks too much like “lion.”
- wutbrodo 7y agoHa, interesting thanks. I was wondering how someone could've independently come across the concept of counting it out without coming across the correct term itself, but I guess if it's a commonly-made mistake, that explains it.