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Glossary R

Reassignment of Hotkeys
Hotkeys or Shortcut Keys are the keyboard key combinations that are used in software to initiate functions in response to the user's keystrokes. In user menus and dialog boxes they are usually tagged with an underscore. The set of commands available on each menu or dialog box has a unique Hotkey for each command. When the GUI is translated to another language, the Hotkeys of each menu and dialog box are reassigned to fit the target language.

Rebuild
Recompilation of the software after translation and resizing, which are performed in order to create the localized version of the application.

Regeneration
See Clean-up.

Resizing
The basic engineering process for localization on the Windows platform. After translation, the engineers adjust (resize) the GUI elements, using the appropriate resource editor, to fit the size and alignment of the translated strings.

Reversed Artwork
Artwork that reads from right to left rather than left to right.

Reversed Font
Any font in which the characters read from right to left, for example those used for Hebrew and Arabic.

Romanization
In linguistics, the representation of a word or language using the Roman (latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system.

RTF (Rich Text Format)
A document file format developed by Microsoft for cross-platform document interchange.

RTT (Real-Time Translation)
Real-time translation systems are based on linguistically sophisticated machine translation (MT) technologies. Such systems are programmed with comprehensive dictionaries and a collection of linguistic rules that translate one language into another without relying on human translators. Real-time cross-language translation is the only viable solution for real-time communication, collaboration and commerce on digital networks.