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About Web Services Localization

The locale of the content for requests and responses is typically based on the authenticated user's locale preference, which is set on the User Profile Preferences page in the Oracle Self-Service E-Billing Web application.

Each API call has a passed-in token that represents the authenticated user. The locale values are specified in the HTML header of requests and responses. In Web service requests, you can retrieve the locale from the Accept-Language attribute. Oracle Self-Service E-Billing supports one acceptable language for each request. In Web service responses, the locale value is in the Content-Language attribute.

The Date and Number values are displayed in the format that is specific to the locale. The currency amount is based on the billing account statement, not on the authenticated user's preferred locale. For more information about localizing your implementation, see About Customizing Localization Values.