Globalization

Globalized products can be used without language or culture barriers and can be enabled for a specific locale.

IBM® WebSphere® Process Server, version 6.0.0, and version 6.0.1, are available only in English but support all locales: data can be entered in other languages, but messages and interface elements are in English.

WebSphere Process Server, version 6.0.1.1, is available in other languages. For more information, refer to the WebSphere Process Server announcement letter at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/897/ENUS205-309/.

For information about the internationalization service available with WebSphere Application Server, refer to WebSphere extensions in the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment information center.

Bidirectional language support

The data that you process in WebSphere Process Server needs to be in the bidirectional language format of ILYNN (implicit, left-to-right, on, off, nominal), which is also the Windows® bidirectional language format. All other bidirectional language formats for applications you are running on WebSphere Process Server must be converted prior to being introduced to WebSphere Process Server.

Bidirectional attributes

There are five attributes that must be set for the proper bidirectional language format. The attributes and settings are listed in the table below.

Letter Position Purpose Values Description Default Setting
1 Order Schema I or V Implicit (Logical) or Visual I
2 Orientation L or R Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left L
3 Symmetric Swapping Y or N Symmetric Swapping is on or off Y
4 Shaping Y or N Text is shaped or not shaped N
5 Numeric Shaping H, C, N Hindi, Contextual, Nominal N

It is the responsibility of any client applications, external components (such as Web services, stateless session beans, and custom code), or anyone building solutions to run on WebSphere Process Server, to transform the data into the supported bidirectional language format.

For an example of bidirectional language transformation of a string, refer to Example: Using bidirectional transformation on string-type data.

For an example of bidirectional language transformation of a Service Data Object, refer to Example: Using the bidirectional transformation on DataObject-type data.

Note: The locale setting of the user interface (browser) defines the bidirectional language display and edit format.

For more information on bidirectional language, see the technical articles on IBM developerWorks®, available at www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/bidi/bidigen.html.


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