Character

Character

(1) The smallest components of a writing system or script that have semantic value. A character refers to an abstract idea rather than to a specific glyph or shape that a character might have once rendered or displayed. (2) A code element.

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Industry/Domain: Software; Translation & localization
Category: Internationalization (I18N)
Company: Microsoft
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the person checking and revising the translated content

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When a part of communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

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