- Industry: Computer
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- Number of blossaries: 26
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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.
According to Korean legend, the god-king Tangun founded the Korean nation in BC 2333. Early Korea used a lunar calendar. As the rest of the world encroached on Korea, it eventually went to the solar, Gregorian calendar. Yet much of the country still uses the lunar calendar to keep track of births and deaths and some traditional holidays.
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Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 7-bit encoding. Although primitive, ASCII’s set of 128 characters is the one common denominator contained in most of the other standard character sets and in all Windows and OEM code pages.
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Acronym for National Language Support API. The set of system functions in 32-bit Windows containing information that is based on language and cultural conventions.
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Acronym for the American National Standards Institute. The term “ANSI” as used to signify Windows code pages is a historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community. The source of this comes from the fact that the Windows code page 1252 was originally based on an ANSI draft—which became International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standard 8859-1. “ANSI applications” are usually a reference to non-Unicode or code page–based applications.
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Acronym for the Windows (ANSI) code page in use. Windows NT uses this code page to convert to and from Unicode (UTF-16) automatically whenever an application calls one of the “A” entry points of Win32 APIs.
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Activating mirroring for the binary dynamic-link library resource files of an application, without the need for rebuilding the application.
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Allows enterprise-wide configuration and management of SQL Server and SQL Server objects.
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Allows you to create installers in order to distribute an application in Visual Studio .NET.
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Altering program code to handle input, display, and editing of bidirectional or East Asian languages, such as Arabic and Japanese, respectively.
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An ActiveX control that provides limited IMM service on non-Asian language versions of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4 platforms. It is replaced by the more general Text Services Framework in Windows XP. Active IMM is also known as “Global IME.”
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