This chapter includes the following sections: 4.1 Translatable Product Components 4.1.1 Translation Negotiations, Defaults, and Selection 4.1.2 Textual Objects 4.1.2.1 Fixed Textual Objects 4.1.2.2 Messages 4.1.2.3 Help Systems and Documentation 4.1.3 Non-textual Objects 4.1.3.1 Icons, Images and Colors 4.1.3.2 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Objects 4.1.3.3 Sounds 4.1.3.4 Other Non-textual Objects 4.2 Cultural Formatting and Processing 4.2.1 Culture Negotiations, Defaults, and Selection 4.2.2 Abstract Objects 4.2.2.1 Time, Date, and Calendar 4.2.2.2 Numeric, Monetary, and Metric 4.2.3 Structured Text 4.2.3.1 Ordered Lists (Collation) 4.2.3.2 Personal Names, Honorifics, and Titles 4.2.3.3 Addresses 4.2.3.4 Other Formating and Layout 4.2.4 Language Processing 4.2.4.1 Lexical and Grammatical 4.2.4.2 Phonology and Sound-to-Text 4.3 Text Foundation and Writing Systems 4.3.1 Writing System Negotiations, Defaults, and Selection 4.3.2 Plain Text Representation 4.3.2.1 Characters (Semantics and Codespaces) 4.3.2.2 Strings (Encoding Methods and Transcoding) 4.3.3 I/O and Interchange 4.3.3.1 Transfer Encoding (8-Bit Clean) 4.3.3.2 Device Input (Keyboard and Input Methods) 4.3.3.3 Device Output (Font Management, Rendering, and Output Methods)
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