Localizing Your Portal
This chapter describes how you can internationalize and
localize your portal.
- Localizing Object Names and DescriptionsYou can localize object names and descriptions, so that users see the names and descriptions in their chosen language. For example, if you have an object called "Engineering," you could add "Ingénierie" as the localized entry for French. A user viewing the French user interface would see the Ingénierie as the object name, as well as any other names and descriptions localized into French.
- Localization Manager XMLEach localized object is represented by an entry in the Localization Manager XML file.
- About Search Service Internationalization SupportThe portal provides support for 61 languages. The portal uses Unicode characters to store and retrieve text, and the system has access to linguistic rules for multiple languages during full-text indexing. This makes it possible to have documents of different languages within the same search collection, with significantly improved results. The user interface handles text using the UTF-8 encoding, so search results are always displayed correctly, assuming that the appropriate fonts are available to the web browser.
