- 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.
An alphabetic base character followed by one or more combining-mark characters such as acute and grave accents.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An Alt+character combination used to activate menus, menu items, and dialog box items in Windows. The character that activates the menu or dialog box item is underlined. It is also called a “hot key.”
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An annotation or pronunciation guide for a string of text. The string of text annotated with ruby text is referred to as the “base text.”
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An encoding code point that does not graphically combine with preceding characters and that is neither a control nor a format character. The Latin “a” is an example of a base character.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An extension of the TrueType font format, adding support for PostScript font data.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An extension to the OpenType format designed to provide support for international and high-end typography.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An input method that allows the user to select a character by typing in its Big-5 code-point index.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An input method that uses radicals to build Chinese characters. See Radicals. Twenty-five radicals are assigned to the letters “A” through “Y.” The letter “X” is used to generate more complex radicals.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An internal structure that stores IME-related status information. Windows supports multiple IME contexts, automatically creating an input context for each active thread.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
An ordered set of characters of a given script in which a numeric index (code-point value) is associated with each character. In this book, this term is generally used in the context of code pages defined by Windows and can also be called a “character set” or “charset.”
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
