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Translation & localization

1) The converting of one language into another for the purpose of facilitating understanding and 2)The process of adapting a language for a specific country or region, or translation of a product into another language so it is marketable in a specific country or region

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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 ...

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 ...

HKL

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

See Input language handle (HKL) and Language/layout pair.

Hijri (Islamic lunar) calendar

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Since the Islamic calendar is purely lunar, as opposed to solar or luni-solar, the Islamic (Hijri) year is shorter than the Gregorian year by about 11 days, and months in the ...

common dialog boxes

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Standard dialog boxes defined by Windows for operations found in numerous applications; these operations include Open, Save As, Print, Page Setup, Color Selection, Font Selection, ...

charset

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

Stands for “character set.” A set of characters used in Windows. Charsets refer to the same collections of characters as those defined by Windows code pages.