- Industry: Computer
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- 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.
Taking a string of text and converting everything into either lowercase or uppercase.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Term used to describe the supported script families in Windows 2000.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Text flows from right to left. Examples are Arabic and Hebrew.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Text saved with formatting instructions that multiple applications, including compatible Microsoft applications, can read and interpret.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Two or more characters combined to represent a single typographical character. The modern Latin script uses only a few. Other scripts use many ligatures that depend on font and style. Some languages, such as Arabic, have mandatory ligatures. Other languages have characters that were derived from ligatures, such as the German ligature of long and short “s” (ß) and the ampersand (&), which is the contracted form of the Latin word “et.”
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
(1) The smallest components of a writing system or script that have semantic value. A character refers to an abstract idea rather than to a specific glyph or shape that a character might have once rendered or displayed. (2) A code element.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The actual shape (bit pattern, outline, and so forth) of a character image. For example, an italic “a” and a roman “a” are two different glyphs representing the same character.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Text that flows from left to right. There are two primary kinds of text: left-to-right text such as in English and Latin languages, and right-to-left (RTL) text such as in Arabic and Hebrew.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The Alt key on the right on some non-U.S. Windows keyboard layouts. The AltGr key is equivalent to the Ctrl+Alt key combination and is used to create an alternative shift state for accessing additional characters on some keys.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
