For example, a word processor that allows Japanese and English in the same document is multilingual. NLS National Language Support. The features of a product that accommodate a specific region, its language, script, local conventions, and culture. See internationalization and localization . The process of converting Unicode text into one of several standardized forms in which precomposed and combining characters are used consistently.
Many cultures have different forms for cardinal and ordinal numbers.
For example, in French the cardinal number five is cinq, but the ordinal fifth is cinqui me or 5eme or 5e. Numbers are written with symbols that are usually referred to as numerals. See Arabic numerals , Chinese numerals , Indic numerals , and Roman numerals. A system to phonetically render Chinese ideograms in a Latin alphabet. Lesser numbers in prefix positions indicate subtraction.