Configuring Cascading Style Sheets to Specify Different Fonts

To successfully run Siebel CRM 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 the second table in this topic.

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 the second table in this topic.

• 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 the second table in this topic.

• 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 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.

The following table 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.

Windows Font Names	UNIX Font Names
Windows	AIX	HP-UX	Linux	Solaris
Arial Unicode MS (usually available only to licensed users of Microsoft Office) Oracle Albany	IBM Thorndale Worldtype (X11.fnt.ucs.ttf) Oracle Albany	Worldtype (X11.fnt.ucs.ttf) Oracle Albany	Oracle Albany	Worldtype (X11.fnt.ucs.ttf) Oracle Albany

The following table 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 the first table in this topic might be deployed instead. Other suitable fonts might be available from font vendors.

Note: Font recommendations are not available at this time for Polish or Russian languages on UNIX or Linux client platforms.

Language or Locale	Siebel Language Code	Windows Font Names	UNIX Font Names
		Windows	AIX	HP-UX	Linux	Solaris
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)	ARA	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Naskh	ClearlyU Arabic Extra	Naskh MT
Chinese (Simplified)	CHS	SimSun	Times New Roman WT J	Zycjksun	ClearlyU	Zycjksun
Chinese (Traditional)	CHT	MingLiu	Times New Roman WT J	ARMingtiL	ClearlyU	Zycjksun
Czech	CSY	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Danish	DAN	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Dutch	NLD	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
English (United States)	ENU	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Finnish	FIN	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
French (France)	FRA	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
German (Germany)	DEU	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Hebrew	HEB	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	ClearlyU	Arial
Italian	ITA	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Japanese	JPN	MS PGothic	Times New Roman WT J	(Font name uses Japanese characters)	ClearlyU	(Font name uses Japanese characters)
Korean	KOR	MS Gulim	Times New Roman WT J	Hybatang	ClearlyU	Gothic
Polish	PLK	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Portuguese (Brazil)	PTB	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Portuguese (Portugal)	PTG	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Russian	RUS	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Spanish (Modern)	ESN	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Swedish	SVE	Arial	Times New Roman WT J	Arial	Luxi Serif	Arial
Thai	THA	Tahoma	Times New Roman WT J	Angsana	ClearlyU	AngsanaUPC
Turkish	TRK	Arial	Arial	Arial	XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts	Arial