Understanding Bidirectional Language Support

The PeopleSoft system provides bidirectional support that enables you to use right-to-left oriented languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew.

This section discusses features, translations and platforms.

Note: Bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are not certified with the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface.

These features are included for bidirectional support in the PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture:

  • Right-aligned menu navigation pane.

  • Right-aligned scroll bars.

  • Right-aligned field labels.

  • Right-to-left data entry.

  • Right-aligned display images.

  • Hijri (Umm al-Qura) calendar support.

  • Ability to designate images to display horizontally flipped.

PeopleTools is delivered with Arabic and is supported on the following Unicode databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2 z/OS and DB2 Windows/Unix/Linux.