internationalization
The principles and practices used in the designing and modification of a product to ensure it performs as expect when adapted for use in different languages and locales (internationalized). Internationalization is often abbreviated as I18N.
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- internetworking
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A program that executes instructions written in a high-level language. There are two ways to run programs written in a high-level language. The most common is to compile the program; the other method is to pass the program through an interpreter. An interpreter translates high-level instructions into an intermediate form, which it then executes. In […]
- Interprocess Communication (IPC)
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