Internationalization (I18N)

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System locale

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The system locale determines the Windows code page used by the ANSI (non-Unicode) version of Win32 APIs. String and character parameters passed to a Win32 ANSI are converted from this Windows code ...

Accented character

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A character that has a diacritic attached to it—such as “ñ.”

Taiwan calendar

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The Taiwan calendar works exactly like the Gregorian calendar, except the year is different. Years in Taiwan are calculated from the year 1912, when Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded a republic in China. 1912 ...

Diacritic

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A character that is attached to or overlays a preceding base character. For example, a mark placed over, under, or through a Latin-based character—such as “~”—to indicate a change in phonetic value ...

Thai calendar

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The Thai calendar uses the Buddhist Era (BE), which is 543 years older than the Christian Era (AD). To convert from a BE date to an AD date, subtract 543. Thus BE 2543=2000. Before April 1, 1889 AD, ...

Precomposed character

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A character that is equivalent to a sequence of one or more characters. It is also known as a “composed character” or a “composite character.” Thus the combining character sequence “a + ' ” forms the ...

Weight

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The thickness or darkness of glyphs in a font. The most common weights are “regular” and “bold,” but some font families can include such weights as “light,” “demi,” “heavy,” “extra bold,” and so ...