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Configuring Cascading Style Sheets to Specify Different Fonts

To successfully run Siebel Business Applications, your cascading style sheet files (CSS files) for Siebel applications must specify fonts that are available on your systems and that support the languages and locales in which you will run the applications.

By default, the style sheets specify fonts for Windows platforms only. The specified fonts are not Unicode fonts, and might not support the character sets that you require for all of the languages that you deploy. (The term Unicode font is used here loosely to refer to any font that contains a wide range of the characters required to support the many languages included in the Unicode standard.)

You can use utilities on your client systems, such as the Character Map utility on Windows, to determine which characters are available in any installed font.

For some example font settings that might be suitable on different operating system platforms for supported languages or locales, see Table 9.

Some scenarios in which you might need to modify font specifications in your cascading style sheets include the following:

• If your database uses Unicode, and some users need to be able to view data using multiple languages, then the cascading style sheets applicable to these users might need to be modified to specify Unicode fonts.

  For example, if U.S. English (ENU) users need to view data using Japanese (JPN) characters, then Unicode fonts would be required for the ENU users, such as to change from Arial to Arial Unicode MS. If the JPN users do not require viewing data in other languages, then a Shift-JIS font could be specified for these users, because the display characteristics might be more suitable.

  NOTE:  Style sheet files can include font names that contain non-ASCII characters only if the file is saved using UTF-8 encoding.

• If you are deploying your Siebel applications with any language that is not supported by the default fonts specified in the cascading style sheets, then the style sheets applicable to users for this language must be modified to specify a suitable font. See example fonts listed in Table 9.
• Your style sheets must specify fonts that are available on the client computers and browsers where users run the Siebel applications. See example fonts listed in Table 9.
• You might also need to specify different fonts in order to display special symbols such as mathematical symbols, to change the font to suit your company's design standards, and so on. (These scenarios are not specifically related to deploying languages.)

You might need to modify multiple cascading style sheet files, depending on which Siebel products and features you are deploying.

NOTE:  The first font specified in each applicable cascading style sheet must be valid. Additional font names specified in a list are not used.

Cascading style sheet files and other types of files, such as image files, are stored in the Siebel Application Interface installation. See Siebel Installation Guide for the operating system you are using.

For more information about modifying cascading style sheets, see Configuring Siebel Business Applications, Siebel Developer's Reference, and Configuring Siebel Open UI. See also 477498.1 (Article ID) on My Oracle Support. This document was previously published as Siebel FAQ 2104.

Table 8 lists some example font settings that might be suitable on different operating system platforms for installations supporting multiple languages or locales. These are Unicode-enabled fonts. Other suitable fonts might be available from font vendors. See also About Unicode Fonts.

Table 9 lists some example font settings that might be suitable on different operating system platforms for installations supporting a single language or locale. Where applicable, Unicode-enabled fonts such as those listed in Table 8 might be deployed instead. Other suitable fonts might be available from font vendors.

NOTE:  For Table 8, font recommendations are not available at this time for Polish or Russian languages on UNIX or Linux client platforms.