Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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Visual order

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The ordering used to display glyphs on a screen, printed page, or other medium. Usually used with bidirectional text, because reordering is required to go from logical order to visual order. See ...

Resource

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

(1) An element, such as a string, icon, bitmap, cursor, dialog, accelerator, or menu, that is included in a Windows resource (.RC) file. (2) Any item that needs to be translated.

The overall direction of a sequence of text. Whereas words in a given script always flow in the direction associated with that script (for example, LTR for Latin, RTL for Arabic and Hebrew), the flow ...

Extended characters

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

(1) Characters above the ASCII range (32 through 127) in single-byte character sets. (2) Accented characters.

Boundary

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The point of interaction between systems or applications that use different character encodings.

Attribute

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

(1) In C/C++ programming, attributes contain information or parameters that define object classes property and/or behaviors. (2) In HTML, an attribute is a parameter that defines a special property ...

Hard-coding

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

(1) Putting string or character literals in the main body of code, such as the .C files or the .H files, instead of in external resource files. (2) Basing numeric constants on the assumed length of a ...