Language-specific behavior support

WebSphere InterChange Server and WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (WebSphere Business Integration products) support bidirectional languages such as Hebrew and Arabic through bidirectional enablement. Bidirectional enablement is a mechanism for accurately displaying and processing of bidirectional script data inside components (connectors, Adapter Framework, collaborations and maps) bundled with WebSphere Business Integration products. While WebSphere Business Integration products can process data in any bidirectional format, the data in WebSphere Business Integration products domain is set to one uniform bidirectional format, which is the Windows standard bidirectional format (logical left to right).

This chapter provides an overview of bidirectional support in WebSphere Business Integration products and the requirements and processes used in enabling bidirectional support. It contains the following sections:

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