- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
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.
Mapping a character from one character encoding to another and back. Of particular interest is how well information is preserved during round-trip conversion.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Mechanism for providing an alternate font for runs of characters not representable by the original font. Understands complex scripts and typographic effects. Font fallback is a hard-coded list of standard fallback fonts according to the Unicode character range.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Name given to a particular style of text. In contrast, a font is an implementation of a typeface.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Numeric representations of a sort element based on locale-specific sorting rules. A sort key consists of several weighted components that represent a character’s script, diacritics, case, and so on.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Pairing of input language (LANGID) and method of input determines what language is currently being entered and how. See Locale, System locale, User locale, and User-interface (UI) language.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Portable or applicable to more than one operating system.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Provides a rapid development solution for creating Windows applications. It is the locus of visual, client-based forms design. Using the designer, you can add components, data controls, or Windows-based controls to a form.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Provides the ability to develop and deploy applications quickly by automating much of the development process and eliminating repetitive tasks.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Punctuation characters that are allowed to extend beyond the right margin for horizontal text or below the bottom margin for vertical text.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
