Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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Internationalization (I18N)

Following characters

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Characters—such as closing quotation marks, closing parentheses, and punctuation marks—that shouldn’t be separated from succeeding characters.

Leading characters

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Characters—such as opening quotation marks, opening parentheses, and currency signs—that shouldn’t be separated from succeeding characters.

Scripting engine

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Component that handles character line measurement, display, caret movement, character selection, justification, shaping, and line breaking for complex scripts.

Plaintext

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Computer-encoded text that contains only code elements and no other formatting or structural information (for example, font size, font type, or other layout information). Plaintext exchange is ...

UTC

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Coordinated Universal Time (often spelled out as “Universal Coordinated Time”). It is the standard time common to every place in the world. Formerly and still widely called “Greenwich Mean Time” ...

Cultural convention

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Data or data formats that are specific to a language, local dialect, or geographic location. Examples are currency symbols, date formats, calendars, numeric separators, and sort orders.