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type de police de caractère natif

English translation: native font


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French term or phrase:police de caractère natif
English translation:native font
Entered by: Yolanda Broad
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09:35 Nov 15, 2002
French to English translations [PRO]
Computers (general) / Computing
French term or phrase: type de police de caractère natif
Puis il faut sélectionner tout l'ensemble du code et le mettre dans un type de police de caractère natif.
Helen Jordan
Local time: 06:56
native font
Explanation:
"The native font control is an invisible control that works in the background to allow a dialog box's predefined controls to display the current system language.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/e...

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Note added at 2002-11-15 09:52:43 (GMT)
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\"Java is a platform-independent language, but Asian fonts are delivered with your platform. In addition, font rendering is platform-dependent. For example, the native font rendering used by Microsoft Windows is quite different from the UNIX platforms. Solaris, Linux and HP-UX render images using the X11 Windows system. \"
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailP...

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Note added at 2002-11-15 09:54:34 (GMT)
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The sentence means that the program (?) should be written in a kind of font that the customer\'s computer will be able to read.
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Florence B
France
Grading comment
Thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +9native font
Florence B


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
native font


Explanation:
"The native font control is an invisible control that works in the background to allow a dialog box's predefined controls to display the current system language.
"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/e...

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Note added at 2002-11-15 09:52:43 (GMT)
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\"Java is a platform-independent language, but Asian fonts are delivered with your platform. In addition, font rendering is platform-dependent. For example, the native font rendering used by Microsoft Windows is quite different from the UNIX platforms. Solaris, Linux and HP-UX render images using the X11 Windows system. \"
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailP...

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Note added at 2002-11-15 09:54:34 (GMT)
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The sentence means that the program (?) should be written in a kind of font that the customer\'s computer will be able to read.

Florence B
France
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Arthur Borges: Makes sense.
25 mins

agree  sujata
26 mins
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agree  Tony M: Yes. absolutely!
38 mins

agree  Clair@Lexeme
2 hrs

agree  JCEC
3 hrs

agree  Christopher Crockett
3 hrs

agree  Nancy Bonnefond
4 hrs

agree  NancyLynn
4 hrs
  -> thanks to all!

agree  Michael Tovbin
1 day5 hrs
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