Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The sequence of characters or glyphs between points at which the Unicode representation of a string aligns with the glyph representation. For simple text, where each code point is represented by a ...

Screen dump

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A bitmap of an element in a program’s graphical user interface, such as a dialogue box or menu.

Latin script

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The set of 26 characters (A–Z) inherited from the Roman Empire that, together with later additions, is used to write languages throughout Africa, the Americas, parts of Asia, Europe, and Oceania. The ...

Hebrew lunar calendar

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A calendar based on the cycle of the moon around the Earth. The length of this cycle, the lunar month, is about 29½ days. Twelve lunar months make, therefore, about 354 days.

Byte-order mark (BOM)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The Unicode character U+FEFF—or its noncharacter mirror-image, U+FFFE—used to indicate the byte order of a text stream. The presence of a BOM at the beginning of a text file is a strong clue that a ...

Input method manager (IMM)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The module on Windows 2000 and Windows XP that handles communication between IMEs and applications.

Shift-JIS

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The multibyte encoding developed by Microsoft for Japanese that is based on Japan Industry Standard (JIS) standard X 0208. The name comes from the way the lead bytes in Shift-JIS shift around the ...