Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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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.

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 ...