2.4.1 Multilingual Support
Before attempting to use multilingual support in LANSA you should clearly understand whether or not you will need to use multilingual support.
You must use multilingual support if any of the following conditions apply:
- You want to produce applications that use a bi-directional language such as Hebrew or Arabic.
- You want to produce applications that use ideographic characters (or double byte character set characters) such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
- You want to produce an application that end users can execute in more than one language, i.e. the same application will appear in more than one language.
- You do NOT need to use multilingual support to produce applications that execute in Italian, and ONLY in Italian. To produce applications that execute in Italian (and only in Italian), you just need to configure the national language portions of your normal LANSA system to work in the Italian language. However, to produce applications that can execute in Italian, French and German, you do need to use multilingual support.
Note: The ability to use national language capabilities in a normal LANSA system (without using multilingual support) only applies to languages that use the Latin alphabet (or a derivation from it). For applications in bi-directional or IGC/DBCS languages you must use multilingual support, regardless of whether or not the resulting applications are truly multilingual (i.e. able to operate in more than one language).
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