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Internationalization (I18N)
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Internationalization (I18N)
Neutral character
Software; Internationalization (I18N)
A character whose directionality (right-to-left or left-to right) is dependent on the directionality of the characters that surround it. See contextual analysis.
Release delta
Software; Internationalization (I18N)
The time between the release of the domestic product and the release of the localised edition.
Script
Software; Internationalization (I18N)
A collection of characters for displaying written text, all of which have a common characteristic that justifies their consideration as a distinct set. One script can be used for several different ...
User locale
Software; Internationalization (I18N)
The user preferences for formatting of dates, currencies, numbers, and so on. The user locale is a per-user setting, and does not require the user to restart or to log off or log on the computer.
Vertical metrics
Software; Internationalization (I18N)
A collective term to indicate information from a set of fields that is available in various font tables for determining vertical spacing when laying out text. Some of these fields can be used to ...
Trail-byte
Software; Internationalization (I18N)
The second byte of a 2-byte code point in a DBCS code page. See Double-byte character set (DBCS).
Indexing service
Software; Internationalization (I18N)
A base service of Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP that extracts content from files and constructs an indexed catalogue to facilitate efficient and rapid searching. Indexing Service can ...
