9 Oracle Identity Manager Globalization

Globalization support in Oracle Identity Manager enables you to deploy Oracle Identity Manager by using supported languages and country locales from around the world. Globalization of software applications consists of two aspects, internationalization and localization, as described in the following topics:

• Internationalization

• Localizing Oracle Identity Manager

• Globalization Properties

See Also:

Oracle Identity Manager Globalization Guide

9.1 Internationalization

Internationalization is the process of adapting products for use with other languages, nations, and cultures. The internationalization of software applications includes the following tasks:

• Separating resources, such as strings, images, and so on, from application code

• Selecting the appropriate code page (the character set) and defining the code page conversions

• Modifying all text manipulation algorithms to be aware of the selected code page

• Modifying the logic for algorithms that handle dates, times, currency, numerics, and so on

• Modifying the logic used in collation and sorting algorithms

• Isolating the text strings in images

9.2 Localizing Oracle Identity Manager

Localization is the process of preparing an internationalized software application for a specific market, and includes the following tasks:

• Translating resource strings into the target languages, taking into consideration characteristics of the locale where the target language is used

• Identifying potentially nonlocalizable resources and removing them, if necessary

Oracle Identity Manager has been localized into the following languages:

• Chinese (Simplified)

• Chinese (Traditional)

• Danish

• English

• Japanese

• French

• German

• Italian

• Korean

• Portuguese (Brazilian)

• Spanish

In this release of Oracle Identity Manager, application components can only understand and support one language. During installation, you select the language that you want from a list of supported languages.

9.3 Globalization Properties

The following system properties support globalization for a single language in the current release:

• user.language

  Oracle Identity Manager uses this property for back end activities, for example, for automatic e-mail generation when sending e-mail to users. You set this property when you select a language during installation.

  For displaying data in a browser, Oracle Identity Manager localizes the data based on the value of the accept-language parameter in the HTTP header sent by the browser. The Oracle Identity Manager application localizes all responses into this language.

• user.region

  As with the user.language property, Oracle Identity Manager uses this setting for back-end processes, for example, sending e-mail to users.