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Early normalization

Transfer of all text into Unicode at the earliest possible stage, before major use of the text.

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Editing

The second step of the translation process, in which a second, qualified translator reviews and revises the translated text against the source text.  If multiple translators are used in the translation step, the editing step ensures consistency of the final outcome.

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Encoding

Mapping between the abstract concept of the character (for example: the capital letter A) and the computer-understandable information (bits and bytes).

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Exact match

A stored source segment in a translation memory which is identical to a new segment in the text to be translated.

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Extended characters

The English alphabet has 26 letters and can be represented within the ASCII character set. The Chinese language has over 10,000 characters and requires an extension, such as Unicode, to be fully represented.

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