Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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Internationalization (I18N)

Contextual analysis

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A process for determining how to handle text based on surrounding characters, as in Arabic, in which a glyph changes shape depending on its position in a word.

No-compile localization

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A process of localization where the code is not recompiled.

World-ready

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A programme that has been properly globalised and developed for ease of localization (known as “localizability”). See localizability.

Input method editor (IME)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A programme that performs the conversion between keystrokes and ideographs or other characters, usually by user-guided dictionary lookup.

Simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A protocol for sending messages from one computer to another on a network; used on the Internet to route e-mail.

CJK/CJKV

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A reference to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Sometimes a “V” for Vietnamese is added to the acronym. See Multibyte character set (MBCS) and Double-byte character set (DBCS).