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When reports and screen panels are designed in multilingual applications, "width" details for the column headings, labels, descriptions, etc. are established from the widest available multilingual definition.

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Ignoring the fact that using a 20 character wide column heading for a 3 character wide field is fairly unlikely and violates the guidelines in the LANSA Application Design Guide, consider if it was placed onto a report, the space used would be like this (where GG..GG is the German column heading and XXX the printable field value):

                          GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
                                   XXX

Now if the system also allowed English and Hebrew, and both of these column headings only used 5 characters, the run time change to either of these languages would produce a result like this: 
         English 

          English ....         EEEEE
                                       XXX
 
 
         Hebrew .....                        HHHHH
                                       XXX

Both of these results would look really odd on the report.

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If these column headings were all centered in the 20 characters, the results would be like this (which are far more acceptable):

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        German .....          GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
                                        XXX
 
 
         English ....                  EEEEE
                                        XXX
 
 
         Hebrew .....                  HHHHH
                                        XXX