The ordering of characters in text corresponding to that when writing by hand, or keying in text using a keyboard. Contrast visual order. The set of system functions in 32-bit Windows that contains national language support. Contrast formatted text. The overall direction of a sequence of text.
Rich text See formatted text.
Script A collection of characters for displaying written text, all of which have a common characteristic that justifies their consideration as a distinct set. Note that this sense of the word has nothing to do with programming scripts such as Perl or VBScript. Slant The obliqueness or tilt of the glyphs in a font. The most common slants are regular and italic. System locale The locale emulated by the system, as seen by applications.