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Visual LANSA

2.4.2 Multilingual Partitions

If you are creating a multilingual application, you will start by defining a partition or LANSA development environment which supports multilingual development. The partition definition screen has an option "Multilingual support" which can be specified as either YES or NO to indicate whether or not multilingual support is required in this partition. If you specify YES for this option, you must also specify YES for the SAA/CUA standards option.

When creating a new partition, if you choose the option to copy system fields from another partition, only the non-multilingual field information will be copied since no languages have yet been defined for this partition. You should use the export and import facility of LANSA to set up the multilingual information later.

Note: Until a default language has been defined for a multilingual partition, the partition will not be considered to be multilingual.

By defining a LANSA environment which supports the development of multilingual applications, you are making it possible to create a single application which will execute in more than one language.

Note: If you are unsure whether or not your application will require multilingual support, you are advised to select multilingual support as YES. You can easily remove or change a partition from multilingual to non-multilingual, but you can not change a non-multilingual partition to multilingual.

Also See

Multilingual Application Design Guide

Ý 2.4 Multilingual Applications