Globalization

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

WebSphere Process Server provides basic enablement support for all locales. Translations are provided for the following national languages:
In addition, WebSphere Process Server provides partial translations for the following national languages:

For information about the globalizing applications and the internationalization service available through WebSphere Application Server, see Learn about WebSphere programming extensions in the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment documentation.

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 before being introduced to WebSphere Process Server.

Bidirectional attributes

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

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


Last updated: Thu 26 Oct 2006 10:30:05

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