Delivering globalized applications

As you prepare to deliver your globalized application, you should consider how globalization issues might affect the ways that your customers install and use your application.

Hardware support for multilingual systems

Hardware, in this context, means the physical keyboards, displays, printers, and controllers that make up a IBM® i platform. The extent to which this hardware supports national languages might impose limitations on the degree of support that you can provide with an application. You must refer to the reference manuals for non-IBM hardware to determine what limitations, if any, are imposed by that hardware.

Character data translation

Translating is changing the meaning of character data from a set of concepts, ideas, and statements in one human language to a culturally similar meaning in another human language. You can follow some basic rules to ensure translation goes smoothly. A subset of these rules is provided in the User interfaces topic.

Delivering your globalized application to customers

Delivering your application to customers includes the processes of packaging, servicing, supporting, and educating users about your application. You must consider various tasks when following these processes in different countries and cultures throughout the world.