Multilingual databases
Database templates are also multilingual. The combination of Language Packs and template design inheritance gives administrators the flexibility to deploy unilingual and multilingual applications according to business needs. Administrators can create mail files and assign language preferences based on users' needs, simplyfing administration.
Locale
Locale reflects those aspects of the user environment that depend on linguistic, national, and cultural conventions. This information including date formats, currency symbols, and sorting order, is established by the server's operating system. Domino and Notes use this information to display local data appropriate for the user. An example of the effects of locale is the date format of emails, which is obtained from the user's local information. If you are using the Notes client and have your operating system locale set for English - US, you will see the date formatted as mm/dd/yy. However, if you have your operating system locale set for English - UK, you will see the date as dd/mm/yy.
When users access a Domino Web site, Domino 6 checks the user's local preferences, and displays locale inforamtion in the appropriate format. A French or German user will be able to see the time zone as GMT +1, and American users will see GMT-5. Date and time format as well as numbers will be displayed accordingly. Business data provided by the server will be available in the languages supported by the server itself. If a price is stored in US$, French users will see US$ and not French Francs (FRF), unless a conversion from US$ to FRF was performed at the application level.
Language tagging and multilingual spell checking
You can select any amount of text in a document and tag it as a specific language. In a document that includes English and Italian text, a user can tag the English text as "English (United States)," and the Italian text as "Italian." Wen a document with language tags is spell-checked, Notes will know which dictionary to use for which text. Users can also maintain "on the fly" dictionary changes. This is useful when editing a document that contains text in multiple languages, but not all text is tagged for a specific language. Notes lets you switch to a language dictionary "on the fly" for text that isn't tagged, and switches automatically to the correct dictionary whenever it encounters text that is tagged.
If you are using a bi-directional language such as Arabic or Hebrew, you can set the Notes menus and text to read in the direction appropriate for the language, and specify cursor movement appropriate to the language.
Alternate name support
Alternate user names is a Domino feature that allows users to display their name and enter names using their local character set. Alternate names are helpful when you want to use your native language and character set to type, display, and look up names. For example, you can type a name in a native language and character set when sending mail. Your primary name is recognizable to an international audience; an alternate name is recognizable in your native language. This is especially useful for people whose names cannot be written using ASCII, such as names in Kanji. Choosing an alternate name language will let you display alternate names throughout Notes.
Calendar and scheduling
Advancements in calendar and scheduling allow users to easily customize their experience based on the language they are using. Users can change the way dates in the calendar picker or pop-up calendar appear. This is useful if the language you're using works right to left. Within the Calendar view, users also have the option to display two calendars - a Primary calendar and a Secondary calendar. The Secondary calendar is a non-Gregorian calendar. The available selections for the Secondary calendar are Hijri, Jewish, or Japanese six day. In addition, users have the ability to select and display time zones when working with colleagues and customers who work across the globe. This feature makes it easy when scheduling meetings to determine attendee availability.
Language support
The Notes 6 client is available in more than 25 language versions. The Domino server is fully translated, in almost a dozen languages. Server Language packs are available that can be added to support more than 40 end-user languages. | 
