- 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.
Designed by what was formerly the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS)–now known as the “InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards” (INCITS)–Technical Committee H2 on Database to be a standard for relational database management systems (RDBMSs).
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Distributing pre-release software to future users and potential customers in order to get feedback and bug reports.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Enables Unicode applications to run on code page–based versions of Windows (Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me).
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English, French, and other languages based on Latin can substitute a single ligature, such as “fi,” for this particular ligature’s component glyphs “f” and “i.” Conversely, the individual “f” and “i” glyphs could replace the ligature, possibly to give a text-processing application more flexibility when spacing glyphs to fill a line of justified text.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Exhibiting different behavior or returning different data, depending on the locale. For example, the Win32 sort functions return different results depending on the locale parameter sent to each function.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Exhibiting different behavior or returning different data, depending on the locale. For example, the Win32 sorting functions return different results depending on the locale parameter sent to each function.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. These types of code pages are used on IBM and other manufacturers' mainframes.
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From the Greek “logo,” meaning “word”: a letter, symbol, or sign used to represent an entire word. Chinese characters are more properly termed “logographic” than “ideographic” because they represent words or parts of words rather than abstract concepts.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
Functionality testing that has been enhanced to include verifying the world-readiness of a product.
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Functions included with a C compiler that programs can call to perform various basic operations.
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