Appendix A. GLOSSARY
- ACE
- See [ASCII-compatible encoding.]
- alignment
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The process of connecting the source and target segments into pairs for translation memory.
- ASCII
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Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a 7-bit coded character set and has since been widely replaced by ISO 8859-1.
- ASCII-compatible encoding (ACE)
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The result of converting internationalized domain names (IDNs) into an ASCII string that can be resolved by DNS servers.
- back-translation
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Hiring another translation agency or freelance translator (after your site has been translated) to tell you what your site is saying to him or her; functions as part of a quality audit.
- bi-directional language (bidi)
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Includes text that flows from right ...
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