the rpg dude - episode 2 - globalization

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The RPG Dude

Take a seat whilst the meeting gets started…


The RPG Dude

His Globalization

perspective


Globalization preambleGlobalizing an app, means:

• Enabling it to be multilingual

• Enabling “local” info like : • local currency symbol, date format, decimal separator…


Globalization preambleLanguages are based on characters, their principals terminologies are:

• Encoding Scheme• Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID)

• Character Set (CS)• Code Page (CP)


Globalization preambleWhat really matters technically is:

• The Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID)• Being Unicode or not

CCSID•EBCDIC

•UTF-8

•UTF-16 Unicode

nnnnn

1208

1200, 13448

Deals with 1 language at a

time

Deals with all languages


Globalization preambleWhat really matters in your app is:

• Switching between languages

• Storing/printing/displaying every language’s characters


Globalization preambleIssue1: Switching between languages

The conventional way to switch between languages is to use Message-files…

If your app wasn’t designed for it, could you reasonably integrate them?

But remember that message-files cannot store Unicode


Globalization preambleIssue2: Storing/printing/displaying every language’s characters

Conventional 5250 emulators have no UNICODE capabilities. Only the terminal character set can by display. This enables only one language to be displayed on the screen at a time.


Now, let’s talk aboutThe RPG Dude

-and particularly about

His Globalization perspective


Remember the brother of our RPG dude?

Hi dude


Well, he found a new job!


And travels everywhere!


But he needs his app to be multilingual.

Help ??


So, he called our RPG dude


The RPG Dude

Hehe, our dude is now in good shape, remember?


The RPG Dude

No more bunny time!


The RPG Dude

No more exile!


The RPG Dude

Our dudeHas the key solution!


The RPG Dudelooksoftware IDE

Multilingual/DBCS/Unicode automated integration with Open Access: openlook



Multilingual/DBCS/Unicode automated integration

• Multi-tier architecture

• Automated extraction of your literals

• Automated/manual translation in Unicode dictionary file

• Automated switching between languages




• Multi-tier architecture leveraged by Open Access.

• Multi-lingual dictionary file in Unicode:• Automated extraction of your literals (in DSPF, MSGF etc…)• Google web-service translator cmd• Manual translation• export/import with excel


The RPG DudeUnicode set of command


CRTDSPFXML With parameter FROMLANGID,

TOLANGID , GENLANGDIC

TRSLANGDIC Translate language dictionary

(generate multi-lingual & Unicode) -

use Google web translator

MSGFTODIC Copy MSGF to language dictionary

DICTOMSGF Copy language dictionary to MSGF

(use CHGMSGID)


The RPG Dude

And now, our RPG dude has a happy life.


The RPG Dude

“Thank you looksoftware!”

He just sent us a postcard.


The RPG Dude

But his brother is traveling all the time, is he working ? …

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