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Internationalization

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Internationalization includes designing software to handle and display data, such as text, diagrams, and numbers, according to the orthography or rules of the language as used in a particular locale. The software might have to input, display, and print characters, sort text, and recognize numbers and dates in different formats, and display and print text right-to-left as well as left-to right. Therefore, certain engineering features must be incorporated into the code to handle these requirements.

Developing an internationalized program means that the feature and code designs do not make assumptions based on a single language or locale and that the source code base simplifies the creation of different language editions of a program.

Some aspects of internationalization include:

A base version enabled for international environments
Localizable items separated from the core functionality on which they are running
Software that takes advantage of supporting platforms, such as the Windows operating systems and the database platform the software is running on

Your Siebel application has been internationalized. Specific features include:

A base version, enabled for international environments
Support for localization built into the data model
Support for separate language-specific modules (where necessary)

For example, some DLLs are language-independent, while other DLLs are language-dependent. Language-dependent DLLs are located in the language-dependent installation directory that they support.

Euro currency support and triangulation
String, number, and date handling
Support for multilingual user data such as:
Multilingual picklists (MLOV seed data)
Multilingual data for product- and catalog-related entities
Support for major Unicode and non-Unicode (Traditional) character sets.

For more information, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms.

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