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Configuring Bidirectional Capability

By default, Siebel applications display user interface elements from left-to-right. To use Siebel Business Applications with Arabic (ARA) or Hebrew (HEB), you must perform various steps to change the user interface directionality.

Verifying UI Directionality Settings

Verify that UI Directionality is set to Right To Left for the Arabic and Hebrew locales.

• For the Siebel Web Client, the UI Directionality setting is already correctly defined by default as Right To Left for the Arabic and Hebrew locales, as shown in the view Administration - Data > Locales. Do not modify this setting.
• For Mobile and Developer Web Clients, the setting must be made directly in the application configuration files for ARA or HEB. To do this, add the following to the appropriate CFG file for your Siebel application, such as uagent.cfg for Siebel Call Center:

  [InfraObjMgr]
  UIDirectionality = RTL

Modifying Directionality in Siebel Web Templates

Framesets in Siebel Web templates (SWT files) need to be reversed on any Siebel Server that supports RTL displays. For more information about how to accomplish this, see Technical Note 599 on Siebel SupportWeb.

Modifying Fonts in Cascading Style Sheets

Depending on which fonts are available on your client machines, you may need to modify cascading style sheets (CSS files) to specify different fonts for use with your language. For more information, see Configuring Cascading Style Sheets to Specify Different Fonts. See also Technical Note 599 on Siebel SupportWeb.

Running Srvrcfg Command to Create Language-Specific Object Manager Components

If you are implementing a language that shipped after the initial product rollout, also run the srvrcfg command, as described in Deploying Language Packs Shipped After Initial Rollout.