A character encoding standard that provides a cross-platform, uniform, and robust digital representation of the scripts for the world’s languages.
Unicode has become the de facto way in which characters for the scripts of the world’s languages are represented in modern digital devices, meaning that Unicode is a prerequisite for all digital text.
Translation Memory Exchange. An XML-based standard that facilitates the exchange of data between different translation memory (TM) tools.
The capability of moving data between different tools makes TMX important to the industry. However, its flexibility can limit its applicability, because tool vendors often create variants, which can hinder interoperability.
Segmentation Rules eXchange. An open XML-based standard that describes how translation and other language-processing tools should split text fragments for processing.
SRX helps in achieving better translation reuse at the sentence level from translation memory (TM) engines.