WebSphere Portal Language support

 

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Overview

WebSphere portal can concurrently serve portal views to large numbers of users, each in the user's preferred language.

WebSphere portal can support portlets shown in different languages. If portlets do not support a desired language, the portal tries to match the user's language preference as well as possible. For example, if a page for a Japanese user shows several portlets in Japanese and a portlet is added that only supports English, then the page shows the new portlet in English but will still show the other portlets in Japanese.

Content within a portlet window can be translated using transcoding technology.

Note that some backlevel versions of browsers and browsers that are not commonly used might have difficulty representing specific languages, depending on the defined character set. In these cases, in order for the language to be rendered correctly, it might be necessary to define the same preferred language for the browser and the portal it accesses.

WebSphere Portal has already been translated into the following languages:

  • Arabic
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German          
  • Greek

  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Polish          
  • Portuguese
  • Brazilian Portuguese

  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian

WebSphere Portal uses the ISO 639 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages to represent localized resources. The names for directories containing language-dependent resources follow the ISO 639 naming convention (see Directories for languages).

 

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