Hi...By way of introduction, my name is Jaipal K. and I work for a software
company in India. We are currently in the process of building 2 software
products which are targeted at the overseas market. The products are to be
developed using Java to be deployed on Weblogic appserver. We are now faced
with his dilemma as to what extent we can go making our system multilingual.
I would greatly appreciate if I could get a response to the following
queries:
1) How exactly do I use the Unicode standard? If I'am right Unicode
has a unique code for each character in each language. Unicode accepts the
character (written in any language) and stores the equivalent Unicode code
in the database. For example what happens when a character in German is
typed into the screen? Does Java (which supports Unicode) find the
equivalent Unicode code and store the same in the database?
2) For captions (field titles) on the user-interface is it necesary
to maintain a table which keeps an equivalent of the English captions in
the other language? When a user selects say German as his choice of
language, the application should pick the titles etc from the database
for the corresponding language. Is that correct?
4) How do I present the reports? Do I need to design Report Formats
for each language?
5) Now in case the application is accessed by regions with varying
native languages, how would Unicode store data coming in different
languages? Would it just translate the incoming data into the Unicode code
and store it in the database and when data is called for by a user, it
translates the unicode back into the language required by the requesting
browser?
6) How are numbers treated in Unicode? In case different regions are
entering numbers in different languages how do I consolidate and get
a financial picture of the company as a whole?
Thanking you and warm regards
Jaipal K.
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