Language support

To reach as many users as possible, WebSphere Portal supports different languages for different locations. For instance, a large, international corporation might address users in different countries or regions through multilingual Web sites. In this context the portal can concurrently serve portal views to large numbers of users, each in user's preferred language.

If necessary, the portal can support portlets that are 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 still show the other portlets in Japanese. Content within a portlet window can be translated using Transcoded Technology. See What is Transcoding Technology for more information.

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
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

WebSphere Portal uses the ISO 639 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages to represent localized resources. Resource bundles containing translated strings for the portal pages are maintained in...

was_root/installedApps/hostname/wps.ear/wps.war/WEB-INF/classes/nls

These resource bundles use a file naming suffix that corresponds to the ISO 639 language code. Also, the names for directories containing language-dependent resources follow the ISO 639 naming convention

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