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The Oracle Forms User Interface

Oracle uses a single executable approach for software internationalization. This means that you do not need a separate executable (for example frmdes.exe) to process single-byte European languages or multi-byte Asian languages. The same set of tools can be used to create both English and non-English applications.

Note: Oracle Forms relies on the Microsoft Windows operating system for the font and input method for the different languages. To enter and display text in any particular language, you must be running a version of Windows that supports that language (that is, to display Thai, you must be running Thai Windows).

When you install Oracle Forms, you select the language of the message files you want to install. When you use a Oracle Forms component (for example Oracle Forms), the appropriate message file, based on the language environment variable, is used to display the interface, including:

If Oracle Forms does not find a message file that corresponds to the current language setting, it defaults to the American message files.

Note: During installation you can only specify one language to install message files for in addition to American. If you later want to use Oracle Forms with a different language, you will need to reinstall Oracle Forms with the appropriate message files.

Message file names specify both the Oracle Forms component and the language, using the following file naming convention:

<product_id><language_id>.MSB

For example, for Oracle Forms:

FMDUS.MSB contains default (American) Developer messages

FMGUS.MSB contains default (American) Generate messages

FMFUS.MSB contains default (American) Runform messages

FMFI.MSB contains Italian Runform messages

FMFD.MSB contains German Runform messages

Note: Language supplements are not forward compatible, they are only meant to work with the version of Oracle Forms they were released with. If you already have language supplements from previous releases, these must be removed from your system.