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It is recommended that you always define partitions as multilingual.

Rules

You must use Multilingual support if any of the following conditions apply:

  • The application uses a bi-directional language such as Hebrew or Arabic. Note that bi-directional languages are only available for 5250 applications using RDML code.
  • The application uses ideographic characters (or double byte character set characters) such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
  • The application executes in more than one language i.e. the same application will appear in more than one language.

Tips & Techniques

There are some important things that you should know about multilingual support before you attempt to turn it on (or off):

  • Providing (or not providing) multilingual support in your applications is an important application design decision that you should make before starting development. Changing your mind late in the development cycle may lead to unnecessary and avoidable maintenance and deployment issues.
  • There are important procedures, considerations and guidelines that you should understand and then follow when converting a partition from monolingual to multilingual (or vice versa). Please refer to the Multilingual Application Design Guide BEFORE changing a partition to be multilingual.