When people discuss about internationalization, they use the word "i18n" more often. For first time I didn't get what they are referring to by "i18n", then I came to know that it means "internationalization".
So wanted to know why internationalization = i18n.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization
18 stands for the number of letters between the first i and last n in internationalization, a usage coined at DEC in the 1970s or 80s