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6.3 Development of Extended Naming Standards

It is strongly recommended that naming standards cater for some special objects associated with developing multilingual applications.
Multilingual Variables (*MTXT variables)
A naming standard for multilingual variables should be established.
A possible standard (which should be refined by you) is:
*MTXTttttnnn
where:

• tttt indicates the type/usage of the variable with values like:
• REPT - Report Title
• REPI - Report Instruction
• PANT - Panel Title
• PANI - Panel Instruction
• MSGT - Message Text
• and so on.
• nnn is an identifying sequence number.

Panel and Report Literals
Multilingual systems tend to have a large number of constants or literals defined as fields in the dictionary.
These are generally used for placing multilingual constants on screen panels and reports.
They usually have a default value that is established from a multilingual variable.
A possible standard (which should be refined by you) is:
ttttnnn  
where:

• tttt indicates the type/usage of the variable with values like:
• REPT - Report Title
• REPI - Report Instruction
• PANT - Panel Title
• PANI - Panel Instruction
• MSGT - Message Text
• etc, etc.
• nnn is an identifying sequence number.

This standard would mean that multilingual variable *MTXTREPI007 would be defined as field called REPI007 in the data dictionary with a default value of *MTXTREPI007.
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