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Internationalization (I18N)

Language ID (LANGID)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A 16-bit value defined by Windows, consisting of a primary language ID and a secondary language ID. Used as a parameter to several Win32 functions and messages.

Cyrillic script

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The script traditionally used for writing various Slavic languages, including Russian. Over the past two centuries, the Cyrillic script has been extended so that some of the other non-Slavic minority ...

Locale ID (LCID)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A 32-bit value defined by Windows that consists of a language ID, a sort ID, and reserved bits.

Win32 API

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The set of 32-bit functions supported by Windows.

Wide character

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A character encoded by a wchar_t or a 16-bit (WORD) data type. Often used to refer to UTF-16-encoded characters.

Traditional Chinese

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The set of Chinese characters, used in such countries/regions as Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan, that is consistent with the original form of Chinese ideographic characters that are several ...

Single-byte character set (SBCS)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single-byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters.

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