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Multilingual Support is set up at a partition level within a LANSA system. All new partitions created on the IBM i on Japanese and French machines are automatically created as multilingual. All Visual LANSA partitions are automatically created as multilingual. |
Multilingual support is necessary if your application will:
- use a double byte character set (DBCS) (also referred to as ideographic characters (IGC)) such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
- run in more than one language.
- use a bi-directional language such as Hebrew or Arabic. Note that bi-directional languages are only available for 5250 applications using RDML code.
For applications in bi-directional or DBCS languages you must use multilingual support, regardless of whether or not the resulting applications are truly multilingual (that is, able to operate in more than one language).
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| Note: Although it is not recommended, it is only possible to use a national language without multilingual support if the language is derived from the Latin alphabet (for example, English). |