- Branche: Computer
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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.
In scripts, portions of an item that have continuous formatting attributes.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
In the .NET Framework, refers to cultures identified by language only (with no associated geographic region). A neutral culture is indicated by a two-letter code, such as “de” for German.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
In the .NET Framework, remoting allows objects to interact with one another across application domains. The framework provides a number of services, including activation and lifetime support, as well as communication channels responsible for transporting messages to and from remote applications.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
In the same order in which it is typed. Generally refers to text that might be displayed in a different order, such as Arabic, Hebrew, or bidirectional text.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
In typography, a glyph for a character like a diacritic or tone mark that combines with other marks or characters. Marks can be spacing or nonspacing glyphs in a font.
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In Windows, a graphics display system used by applications to display or print bitmapped text (TrueType fonts), images, and other graphic elements. The GDI, in particular, is responsible for drawing dialog boxes, buttons, and other elements.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
In Windows, the information included in the resource file that specifies the company name, application name, copyright, version number, and language edition of a program.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Incorporation of logic that biases the method used for input (mode) toward the type of input that is expected. For example, the name field on a Contacts dialog box will have information telling the input method that people’s names are expected. With this information, the input method biases toward those results and thus provides more accurate input.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Known as a “basic string” or “binary string.” A BSTR is a pointer to a wide-character string used by Automation data-manipulation functions. BSTR strings are also used for passing string data between Component Object Model (COM) components, by utilizing strings allocated with COM’s memory allocator.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Language in which the operating system displays its menus, Help files, and dialog boxes. See locale, system locale, user locale, and input locale.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
