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How This Guide Is Organized

This guide provides conceptual information necessary to understand, implement, and deploy Siebel applications in more than one locale or language. Because many aspects of a global deployment are interrelated, you should read the entire book to fully understand the impact of any decisions you make during your global deployment. You should refer to this guide for information on the following topics:

• Siebel-supported character sets and encodings
• Deployment scenarios for installing multiple languages on Siebel servers
• Integration guidelines
• Font management
• Configuring applications for global deployments
• Global time zone support
• Configuring bidirectional capability
• The localization process
• The Siebel Unicode architecture
• Global deployment scenarios