Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Internationalization
Overview
& Multilingual Features
Maher
Alnubani
Senior
Development
Director
E-Business
Suite
Development
October
02,
2014
Program
Agenda
1
InternaLonal Calendars
MulLlingual ReporLng
Q&A
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MulLlingual ReporLng
Q&A
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Oracle
CondenLal
Internal/Restricted/Highly
Restricted
InternaLonal
Calendars
Currencies
Timezones
Address
Management
Desktop
IntegraLon
Simplied
Chinese
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MulLlingual ReporLng
Q&A
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Unicode
Support
Unicode
is
a
universal
character
set
covering
live
scripts
of
the
world
in
a
simple
and
consistent
manner
Oracle
database
supports
two
Unicode
character
sets:
AL32UTF8:
based
on
latest
Unicode
standard,
currently
7.0
UTF8:
on
maintenance
mode
and
supports
Unicode
3.0
standard
AL32UTF8
is
the
character
set
of
VISION
demo
database
in
R12.1
and
above
UTF8
in
11i
and
R12.0
NaLve
character
sets
are
sLll
supported
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Moving
to
Unicode
Why
convert
to
AL32UTF8?
Support
more
characters
and
languages
(e.g.,
convert
from
ZHS16GBK
to
AL32UTF8
to
addiLonally
support
Korean)
Industry
Standard
Fusion
Apps
only
support
AL32UTF8
character
set
ApplicaWon
Database
10g
Web Listener
JSP
BC4J
UIX
BI
Publisher
OC4J
Forms
10gR2 | 11g
Global
Single
Data
Model
ApplicaWon
Database
R2
Web Listener
WebLogic JSP
BC4J
UIX
11g
BI
Publisher
Forms
WebLogic Server
Global
Single
Data
Model
EdiWon-Based
RedeniWon
MulLlingual
Support
MLS
Supports
38
languages
American
English,
Albanian*,
Arabic,
Brazilian
Portuguese,
Canadian
French,
CroaLan,
Czech,
Danish,
Dutch,
French,
Finnish,
German,
Greek,
Hebrew,
Hungarian,
Italian,
Indonesian*,
Japanese,
Kazakh*,
Korean,
LaLn
American
Spanish,
Lithuanian*,
Norwegian,
Polish,
Portuguese,
Romanian,
Russian,
Simplied
Chinese,
Serbian*
(LaLn
&
Cyrillic),
Slovak,
Slovenian,
Spanish,
Swedish,
TradiLonal
Chinese,
Thai,
Turkish,
Ukrainian*,
and
Vietnamese*
US
F
ZHS
AR
Trans
Trans
Trans
Trans
MLS
Architecture
E-Business
Plaqorm
TranslaLon
Table
xxxx_TL
Arabic
English
Simplied
Chinese
Base
table
row
contains
language-
independent
arributes
Base
Table
xxxx_B
TranslaLon
Table
XXXX_TL
Language
View
XXXX_VL
Lightweight MLS
Ability
to
enable
a
language
without
applying
the
corresponding
NLS
patch
English
UI
All
supported
languages
can
be
lightweight
enabled
Fully
patched
and
lightweight
languages
can
coexist
at
the
same
instance
SelecLve
(parLal)
NLS
patching
is
not
supported;
either
full
or
lightweight
MLS
is
supported
for
each
language,
but
not
both
at
the
same
Lme
Lightweight
MLS
English
User
Interface
Setup
or
customer
data
is
shown
in
the
corresponding
language
Use
loaders
such
as
FNDLOAD
to
enter
and
maintain
language
data
May
also
use
'globe
icon
in
Oracle
Forms
based
UI
to
translate
language
data
Custom
Reports
Create
custom
reports
or
translate
Oracle
seeded
reports
Lightweight MLS
Lightweight-Only
Languages
Introduced
in
R12.2.3
Catalan
Bulgarian
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Prole
OpLons
Prole
opLons
control
regional
preferences
(locale)
Administrators
can
set
proles
at
various
levels
Site
ApplicaLon
Responsibility
User
Regional
Prole
OpLons
Locale
*
IANA:
Internet
Assigned
Numbers
Authority
ICX:
Territory
Should
be
set
to
user's
territory
(country
or
region)
Used
in
conjuncLon
with
language
code
to
pick
the
correct
translaLon
resources
such
as
BI
Publisher
templates
Determines
certain
cultural
convenLons
in
some
reports
such
as
local
Lme,
date,
numeric,
or
monetary
convenLons
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Besides
Gregorian,
12.1.1
supports
the
following
calendars:
Arabic
Hijrah:
The
ocial
calendar
in
Saudi
Arabia
with
Arabic
Hijrah
month
names
English
Hijrah:
The
ocial
calendar
in
Saudi
Arabia
with
English
transliterated
Hijrah
month
names
Thai:
The
ocial
Thai
solar
calendar
of
Thailand
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English Hijrah
Gregorian
Thai
Arabic
Hijrah
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This
prole
changes
rst
day
of
the
week
of
Oracle
ApplicaLon
Framework
and
Forms
date
pickers
only,
but
does
not
aect
business
logic
or
reports
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BI
Publisher
Translatability
Communicate
with
your
partners
around
the
world
No
dependency
on
installed
languages
No
dependency
on
DB
character
set
Supports
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locales
*
XLIFF:
XML
LocalisaLon
Interchange
File
Format
StarLng
from
12.1.3
release,
you
can
choose
between
comma
and
tab
as
a
delimiter
when
exporLng
les
FND_UNICODE_IN_EXPORT
prole
opLon
determines
the
export
le
Unicode
encoding
You
can
choose
between
UTF-16
lirle
endian
(UnicodeLirle)
or
UTF-8
for
export
le
Unicode
encoding
regardless
of
browser
or
plaqorm
Good
workaround
for
some
old
versions
of
Microsoo
Excel's
Unicode
data
import
limitaLons
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Summary
Upgrade
to
12.1.3
or
12.2
to
get
the
latest
internaLonalizaLon
support
Convert
to
AL32UTF8
Adopt
lightweight
MLS
Use
iSetup
to
support
phased
language
rollouts
Take
advantage
of
the
internaLonalizaLon
new
features
References
Reference Material
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Reference
Material
GlobalizaLon
Guide:
R12
(MOS
393861.1);
R11i
(MOS
333785.1)
I18N
Update
Notes:
R12
(MOS
393320.1);
R11i
(MOS
222663.1)
Hijrah
and
Thai
Calendar
Support:
R12.1
&
R12.2
(MOS
807393.1)
Lightweight
MLS:
R12.1.3
and
higher
(MOS
1077709.1)
MigraLng
Oracle
ApplicaLons
Character
Set
to
Unicode
(MOS
124721.1)
Oracle
ApplicaLon
Concepts
Guide,
Chapter
3
Installing
Oracle
ApplicaLons
for
InstallaLon
Procedure
NLS
Release
Notes
on
Support
Site
Q&A
GlobalizaLon
Terminology
InternaLonalizaLon
-
I18N
TranslaLon - T9N
LocalizaLon L10N
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InternaLonalizaLon
Terminology
Data
handling
and
display
Locale
support
Text
processing,
data
ow,
font
handling,
data
entry,
search
etc.
Support
of
Bi-DirecLonal
scripts,
CJKV
(Chinese,
Japanese,
Korean,
and
Vietnamese),
Thai,
and
Unicode
I18N opLons
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