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@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-15 11:24:14

hmm someone on hacker news claims that letter-number-letter abbreviations like i18n for internationalization comes from stenography
which disagrees with the explanation i previously heard that it came from a sysadmin at DEC abbreviating someone’s long name to fit as a username en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

@eana@s.1a23.studio
2025-10-15 04:46:22

there are capital variants of small capital letters.

U A7AE Ɪ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ɪ