Globalization in the messaging system

The WebSphere Commerce messaging system gives WebSphere Commerce the ability to communicate with its external environment (back-end and external systems), as well as send notification to customers and administrators that events have occurred within WebSphere Commerce. This is accomplished through two subsystems: an inbound system that manages inbound messages coming from back-end and external systems, and an outbound messaging system that allows us to send notification to users (such as sending e-mail messages notifying a customer about a password reset).

The character encoding used for MIME messaging is usually different from that used by browsers. For example, the de-facto character encoding for MIME messaging in Japan is iso-2022-jp, while the most commonly used character encoding in all other applications is Shift_JIS. As a result, a unique field is added to the WebSphere Commerce schema to enable the messaging system for multilingual support. This field is the MIMECHARSET column in the LANGUAGE table.

• Encoding for e-mail transmission
  For e-mail transmissions where the content must be encoded, the various messaging commands choose the encoding based on the following hierarchy:

Related tasks
Adding a currency to WebSphere Commerce
Address and name formatting in the tools
Creating a globalized store
Creating a new display format
Creating and using resource bundles in the tools framework
Currency and number formatting
Date and time formatting
Setting the dir attribute for bidi specifications
Encoding for e-mail transmission
Name and address formatting
Use resource bundles in store pages

Related reference
Globalization tips