Localization (NLV) and NLS Support


ibi provides National Language Support and Localized Version support for WebFOCUS and App Studio in select languages. Requests for additional languages may be submitted by contacting Customer Support Services.

For information regarding earlier releases, see the Technical Support page.

National Language Support (NLS)

National Language Support (NLS) involves reading and interpreting data stored in code pages that represent the character sets of various international languages. ibi's proprietary NLS application programming interface (API) code-page architecture transcodes data between application client and server components and manages all sorting, case conversion, and formatting for dates, currency, and numbers.

Localized Version Support (NLV)

A localized version is a software product in which the user interface (for example, menus and utilities) appears in a particular language. ibi localized versions are positional. Each button or menu choice is always in the same relative position in the product, and only the text of the labels changes. Therefore, it is easy for anyone who is familiar with an ibi's product in one language to support that product in another language. Localized versions have complete National Language Support (NLS) capability. You can access data for any supported language, with all national characters processed, displayed, and printed correctly.

WebFOCUS and WebFOCUS Server

WebFOCUS Server supports the following code pages for data processing:

ASCII Platforms

137 - U.S. English/Western
Europe (Latin 1)		 923 - Latin 9 (ISO 8859-15)
437 - U.S. English 942 - Japanese (shift-JIS)
813 - Greek (ISO 8859-7) 946 - Simplified Chinese
850 - Western Europe 949 - Korean
852 - Central Europe 1089 - Arabic (ISO 8859-6)
857 - Turkish 1250 - Central Europe (Latin 2)
860 - Portuguese 1251 - Cyrillic (Windows)
862 - Hebrew 1252 - Windows (Latin 1)
863 - French Canadian 1253 - Greek (Windows)
865 - Nordic 1254 - Turkish (Windows)
866 - Cyrillic II 1255 - Hebrew (Windows)
869 - Greek 1256 - Arabic (windows)
912 - Central Europe (ISO 8859-2) 1257 - Baltic (Windows)
915 - Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5) 10942 - Japanese (EUC)
916 - Hebrew (ISO 8859-8) 10948 - Traditional Chinese
920 - Turkish (ISO 8859-9) 65001 - Unicode (UTF-8)
921 - Baltic (ISO 8859-13)  

EBCDIC Platforms (IBM z/OS and IBM i)

37 - IBM EBCDIC United States
 		 500 - IBM EBCDIC International European
273 - IBM EBCDIC Germany F.R./
Austria
 		 870 - IBM EBCDIC Multilingual (Latin 2, Eastern
Europe)
 
277 - IBM EBCDIC Denmark, Norway 871 - IBM EBCDIC Iceland
 
278 - IBM EBCDIC Finland, Sweden 875 - IBM EBCDIC Greece
 
280 - IBM EBCDIC Italy 1025 - IBM EBCDIC Cyrillic, Multilingual
 
284 - IBM EBCDIC Spain/Latin
America
 		 1026 - IBM EBCDIC Turkish
 
285 - IBM EBCDIC United Kingdom 1047 - IBM EBCDIC Open Systems (Latin 1)
 
297 - IBM EBCDIC France 1112 - IBM EBCDIC Baltic Multilanguage
424 - IBM EBCDIC Israel (Hebrew) 65002 - Unicode (UTF-EBCDIC)

Language

The LANGUAGE parameter specifies the National Language Support (NLS) environment. It sets the language of server error messages and can also be used to set the language of report titles if the Master File contains alternate language TITLE attributes. For more information, see the Describing Data With WebFOCUS Language technical content.

WebFOCUS Server, DataMigrator, and the Data Management console support the following languages.

(* Localized versions)

  • AMENGLISH
  • AUENGLISH*
  • ARABIC
  • B-PORTUGUESE
  • CAENGLISH*
  • CROATIAN
  • CZECH
  • DANISH
  • DUTCH
  • ENGLISH
  • ESTONIAN
  • FINNISH
  • FRENCH*
  • GERMAN*
  • GREEK
  • HEBREW
  • HUNGARIAN
  • ITALIAN
  • JAPANESE*
  • KOREAN
  • LATVIAN
  • LITHUANIAN
  • NORWEGIAN
  • POLISH
  • PORTUGUESE
  • ROMANIAN
  • RUSSIAN
  • S-CHINESE*
  • SLOVAK
  • SPANISH*
  • SWEDISH
  • T-CHINESE*
  • THAI
  • TURKISH
  • UKENGLISH

WebFOCUS Client and ReportCaster

The following localized versions are available for the WebFOCUS Client and ReportCaster. Translation and certification of the following languages is done by ibi:

GROUP 1 (Full Translation)

  • English (Australian, Canadian, United Kingdom, and United States)
  • French (Canadian and Standard)
  • German
  • Spanish

GROUP 2 (Partial Translation)

Limited areas have been translated and tested by ibi Agents and Partners. Strings that translation has not been provided for will display in English.

  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Japanese

GROUP 3 (Evaluating)
Limited areas have been translated and tested by Information Builders Agents and Partners for demonstration purposes. Strings that translation has not been provided for will display in English. Contact ibi for instructions to enable.

  • Korean