Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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Bidirectional (BiDi) rendering

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Refers to the script’s ability to handle text that reads both left to right and right to left. For example, in the bidirectional rendering of Arabic, the default reading direction for text is ...

Positional forms

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Refers to the shape of a character that varies with the character’s position in a word. For example, the Arabic character “ha” can take any of four shapes, depending on whether the character stands ...

Client coordinates

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Relative coordinates of a window or client area as specified by the system or applications. Client coordinates ensure that an application can use consistent coordinate values while drawing in the ...

Web parts

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Reusable components that contain Web-based content, such as XML code, HTML pages, or script. Web Parts support a set of standard properties that determine how the Web Parts are rendered in a Digital ...

Windows Forms controls

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Reusable components that encapsulate UI functionality and are used in client-side Windows applications. Not only do Windows Forms provide many ready-to-use controls, they also provide the ...

Content recycling

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Reusing content in localization. Content recycling saves time and money because the content is researched, presented, edited, reviewed, and translated only once.

Complex scripts

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Scripts that require special handling when it comes to shaping and laying out characters in software applications. This special handling is closely related to linguistic requirements of these ...