Polyglot

File Format
Name	Polyglot
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Elements of File Formats Polyglot

A polyglot is a source code or file which constitutes valid data in two or more distinct formats simultaneously.

An example of a polyglot file would be an image file which contains embedded ZIP data, which can be read by changing the file extension to .zip and opening it in a decompression program.

A polyglot program is source code which can be interpreted in two or more different programming languages.

See also

• Steganography
• Data Hiding/Embedding

External links

• Wikipedia: Polyglot (computing)
• Rosetta Code wiki: Polyglot