Glossary for Geospatial Science

multilingual application:� A computer program that allows the user to mix multiple languages and character sets is said to be multilingual such as a word processor that allows side-by-side columns of English and Japanese, or even mixture of Latin characters within a longer Japanese text.� Multilingualization is more complex than internationalization, which limits the program to one local language at a time.� TNTmips offers multilingual support, paticularly with annotation tools for map and poster layout which allow mixing fonts of different character sets.� Thus for example, it is possible to create a map that has both Thai and English annotations.