- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
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An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A character whose directionality (right-to-left or left-to right) is dependent on the directionality of the characters that surround it. See contextual analysis.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The time between the release of the domestic product and the release of the localized edition.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The two dots placed above a vowel, such as “ä,” “ö,” and “ü,” which are used in German and other European languages to indicate a change in the pronunciation of the vowel. See diaeresis.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
A character, such as a diacritic, that has no meaning by itself but overlaps an adjacent character to form a third character.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
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 file is encoded in Unicode.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
A collection of characters for displaying written text, all of which have a common characteristic that justifies their consideration as a distinct set. One script can be used for several different languages (for example, Latin script, which covers all of Western Europe). Some written languages require multiple scripts (for example, Japanese, which requires at least three scripts—the hiragana and katakana syllabaries and the kanji ideographs imported from China). This sense of the word “script” has nothing to do with programming scripts such as Perl or Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript).
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The user preferences for formatting of dates, currencies, numbers, and so on. The user locale is a per-user setting, and does not require the user to restart or to log off or log on the computer.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
A collective term to indicate information from a set of fields that is available in various font tables for determining vertical spacing when laying out text. Some of these fields can be used to arrive at the vertical distance required between two consecutive horizontal baselines, while others can be used to determine vertical spacing for each glyph when text is laid out vertically.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The value sent from the keyboard to the keyboard driver that represents which key was pressed.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
