1.5 Major Language Groups
LANSA multilingual support differentiates between 3 major language groups because of hardware and operating system restrictions.
The 3 major language groups are:
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LRTB
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Left to Right, Top to Bottom Languages. Most languages derived from the Latin alphabet fall into this group. Examples include English, German, Swedish, French, etc. |
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DBCS
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Ideographic Languages. Languages in this group use an ideographic form and use the Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) format. Examples include Chinese, Japanese and Korean. |
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RLTB
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Right to Left, Top to Bottom Languages. Languages in this group are referred to as bi-directional languages as well. Examples include Hebrew and Arabic. Bi-directional languages are supported in 5250 applications using server-side RDML but are not supported in Visual LANSA. |