2.4.5 Multilingual Considerations
Following are some important considerations for multilingual applications:
- The multilingual facilities can only be activated in partitions that use the SAA/CUA standards option.
- When defining a new partition (or modifying an existing partition) to support multilingual applications a "default" language must be nominated. The partition will not be considered multilingual until this language has been defined.
- It is virtually impossible to fully develop a DBCS application on a machine that does not have IBM i DBCS support, (i.e. a DBCS primary language) and have DBCS capable devices attached.
- 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).
- When specifying multilingual error message text, use multilingual variables to specify the text. This way the textual content of the message will be determined at execution time and thus issued in the correct language.
- It is recommended that you use error message numbers from user message files rather than straight message text for all messages.
- When setting up a partition for multilingual support, you must use care with exporting / importing. For example, you cannot import a multilingual export into a non-multilingual partition. Special steps must be performed. Review the Multilingual Application Design Guide in detail.
Also See
Ý 2.4 Multilingual Applications