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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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modeless input

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A method of entering East Asian–language input with an IME. In contrast with modal input, modeless input allows you to easily and seamlessly switch back and forth between the ...

encoding

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A method or system of assigning numeric values to characters (for example, ASCII, Unicode, Windows 1252).

transact-SQL

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A method to communicate with and access data on SQL Server. Applications that communicate with SQL Server do so by sending Transact-SQL statements to the server, regardless of an ...

bidirectional text

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A mixture of characters that are read from left to right and from right to left. Most Arabic and Hebrew strings of text for example, are read from right to left, but numbers and ...

dynamic-link library (DLL)

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A module containing functions or resources that other programs or DLLs can utilize. DLLs cannot run by themselves; other programs have to load them.

GB 2312-80

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A multibyte encoding standardized by the People’s Republic of China.

constant

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

A numeric value, typically an integer, that refers to a character value, the size of a buffer, the position of a character in a string, and so forth. It is assumed that the value ...