Changing Your Language Preference

The Quincy Funds application can display content in English, French, German, and Japanese. When you modify your language preference, the navigation bar and the feature links change to the selected language. Any dates, times, percentages, and currencies on each page also adhere to that language selection.

As a guest, you can adjust your language preference on your home page. As a registered member, you can specify a language preference, which is carried across site visits. At any time, you can change your language through the My Preferences page.

About Locales (for Programmers)

A locale is a code that represents a language/country combination. The locales supported in Quincy Funds are as follows:

Language / Country

Locale

English / United States

en_US

French / France

fr_FR

German / Germany

de_DE

Japanese / Japan

ja_JP

ATG 2007.3 determines a visitor’s locale by scanning these parameters in this order and implementing the first that contains a valid value:

For example, to display a guest visitor’s home page in the correct language, ATG 2007.3 first looks to the guest’s profile for the locale property, which is always null. Then it refers to the visitor’s browser for the Accept–Language HTTP setting. If none exists, ATG 2007.3 pulls the locale information from the default visitor locale. Finally, if none of these settings are configured, it uses the server locale.

Locales at Work

In the Quincy Funds application, a directory is set up for each of the site’s locales. The locale-specific files are in the following directories:

A separate Features repository contains feature articles in each supported locale.

When a visitor opens the Quincy Funds home page, he or she views index page. This page contains a Switch servlet bean that finds the visitor’s locale (through the process outlined above) and displays the home page in the corresponding language directory. This is an example of content rendered dynamically through components.

For more information on the Switch servlet bean, see the ATG Page Developer's Guide.

Displaying Japanese Characters

If you are running a Western operating system, you need to configure your computer to accept double-byte, non-Latin characters. This is a two-part process that involves downloading the Japanese fonts from the Microsoft Web site and configuring your browser preferences. If you installed the Japanese character set when installing your client’s operating system, you don’t need to install the Japanese fonts now.

Important: If you’re running on Windows 2000 and you didn’t load the Japanese character set during installation, you need to install it from the installation CD. Downloading the Japanese character set supplied by the Microsoft Web site could damage your operating system.

To download the Japanese fonts:

  1. Launch Internet Explorer. You must use Internet Explorer for this procedure.

  2. Select Tools > Windows Update.

  3. Once you open the Microsoft update Web site, you receive a security warning dialog box if you haven’t disabled it previously. Click Yes.

  4. Scroll to the International Language Support section. Click the checkbox next to Japanese Menus and Dialogs for Internet Explorer. Click Download.

  5. On the Download Checklist page, click Start Download.

  6. Restart your computer when prompted to do so.

Once you’ve installed the Japanese character set, prepare your preferred browser by modifying the font and language settings.

To customize your Internet Explorer browser:

  1. After you’ve installed the Japanese fonts, launch Internet Explorer. Select Tools > Internet Options.

  2. Click Languages. Click Add, and select Japanese. Click OK.

  3. Click Fonts, select Japanese, then click OK.

  4. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box.

  5. Close and relaunch the browser.

  6. Select View > Encoding > More > Japanese (Auto-Select). Each time you open the browser, you need to enter this setting.

To change your browser back to your default language, return to the language settings and move your preferred language to the top of the list.

To customize your Netscape Navigator browser:

  1. After you’ve installed the Japanese fonts, launch Netscape Navigator. Select Edit > Preferences.

  2. In the navigation tree, expand Appearance, and select Fonts.

  3. Select Japanese, MS Gothic, and MS Gothic from the available lists. Click OK.

  4. In the navigation tree, expand Navigator, and select Languages.

  5. Click Add, select Japanese, and click OK.

  6. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box.

  7. Close and relaunch your browser.

  8. Select View > Character Set > Japanese (Auto-Detect). Each time you open the browser, you need to enter this setting.

To change your browser back to your preferred language, return to the language settings and move your native language to the top of the list.

You may also need to configure the ATG Control Center to allow you to view Japanese files. For more information, see the ATG Programming Guide.