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Internationalization is the process of creating software that is able to be translated more easily. Changes to the code are not specific to any particular market. Retail Analytics has been internationalized to support multiple languages.
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Note: Retail Analytics uses DB language code and not ISO codes for all the supported languages. Retail Analytics will look up RMS language codes and convert them to DB language codes. If, in the case a language supported by Retail Analytics is not available in the source system, then the language under SRC_LANGUAGE_CODE will be used as the local language. |
This section describes configuration settings and features of the software that ensure that the base application can handle multiple languages.
Translation is the process of interpreting and adapting text from one language into another. Although the code itself is not translated, components of the application that are translated may include the following:
Graphical user interface (GUI)
Error messages
Reports
The following components are not translated:
Documentation (online help, release notes, installation guide, user guide, operations guide)
Batch programs and messages
Log files
Configuration tools
Demonstration data
Training materials
The user interface for Retail Analytics has been translated into:
Chinese (simplified)Chinese (traditional)CroatianDutchFrenchGermanGreekHungarianItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortuguese (Brazilian)RussianSpanishSwedishTurkish
Retail Analytics data is supported in 18 languages. This section provides details of various scenarios that may come across during implementation. See "Translation" for a list of supported languages.
Since multi-language data support in Retail Analytics is dependent on the availability of the multi-language data in the source system, it is important to understand various scenarios the user may encounter. Before proceeding review the following facts about multi-language support:
Retail Analytics programs extracts multi-language data from source systems.
A list of languages for multi-language data support can be chosen during the installation process. Please refer to the Oracle Retail Analytics Installation Guide for more details.
Depending on the implementation, the source system may or may not have data for particular supported language(s). For example, RMS supports Item Descriptions in multiple languages but the item's description may not be available in the translated languages.
For source system released languages, please refer to source system Operations Guides.
You must select a Retail Analytics primary language for data purposes to be supported within the source system.
All the supported languages are implemented in Retail Analytics and the same set of languages are supported in the source system as well.
Multi-lingual data sets are enabled in both Retail Analytics and the source system.
Translated data exists for all records in Source System: This is an ideal scenario where the source system supports data for the same set of languages as Retail Analytics and data for the required column exists in all the languages in the source system.
In this scenario the attributes that are supported for multi-languages will get all the multi-language data in Retail Analytics.
Translated data does not exist for some of the records in the source system.
For the attributes for which data is not available in the source system, Retail Analytics will display the attribute in source system primary language. For example, Retail Analytics requests data in German and English languages. In RMS the Item attribute description is not available in the German language but is available in English language.
Retail Analytics will display Item description in English to a user who is logged into Oracle BI EE (assuming English is the primary language of RMS for that implementation).
