Multi lingualenv

IBM China Development Lab

23/4/12 © 2009 IBM Corporation

Notes/Domino Multilingual Environment

Zhong Gang [email protected] Globalization Notes/Domino - Beijing


© 2009 IBM Corporation2 23/4/12

Agenda

Multilingual Environment Introduction

Notes / Domino Multilingual Support

– Notes Client & Alternate name

– iNotes

– Domino

Encoding

– Lotus Multi-byte Character Set (LMBCS)

– LCU and ccSTR



Multilingual Application

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Ap p lication Server



Multilingual Capabilities – From customer's perspective

Software should support different languages to facilitate information exchanging/handling in globalization business environment

Software should adapt to multi-cultural environment.

– Multilingual

– Cultural selectability

– Correct to do culturally sensitive format or data handling.



Notes/Domino Multilingual Capabilities

Support 32 + 1 locales

27 + 1 languages Notes Client/Domino SLP

6 + 1 languages Admin Client

26 + 1 languages Designer Client



Notes/Domino multilingual EnvironmentG818030,GB2312,US-asci i

Internet

Nati ve Notes Cl i ent

Domi no




Domi noDomi no

ISO-2022-JP,ISO-8859-1,ISO-8859-2,KOI8-r,US-asci i

Big5,us-asci i ISO-8859-8,us-asci i



Agenda




– iNotes

– Domino

Encoding


– LCU and ccSTR



Notes Client & Alternate name

Native Notes Client– Language Notes Client– English Notes Client + MUI

Alternate name– Native language Notes ID– One user can has got several alternate names



Language Notes Client & Alternate name



Multi-user & Notes Client MUI

MUI

– Add several language pack to English Notes Client

Multi-User

– Multiple User Install is another feature introduced with the ND6 client. It is an installation type that allows the Notes client to be used by multiple users independently, as opposed to the traditional Single User installation (SU).




Each user has own notes data directory

Language packs under Notes program directory




Login with different OS user, customer has different user experience



iNotes Multilingual Environment

Brower

– Language settings

iNotes Template

– Language Mail application

Forms85.NSF

– Multilingual



iNotes Multilingual Environment

English IE with Chinese language preference to access one English mail which is on multilingual Domino



Domino Multilingual Environment

Domino is one integrated server for Enterprise IT structure




Add language pack

– Multilingual Template

– Multilingual binary resource

Replace language pack

– Replace Template with the other language

– Replace language binary resource with the other language




Multilingual Templates – Domino 8.5

– Discussion - Notes & Web (8.5) [discussion8.ntf]

– TeamRoom (8) [teamrm7.ntf]

– Personal Address Book [pernames.ntf]

– Bookmarks (8.5) [bookmark.ntf]

– Mail (R8.5) [mail85.ntf]

– Doc Library - Notes & Web (8) [doclbw7.ntf]

– NoteBook (8) [notebook8.ntf]

– Resource Reservations (8.5) [resrc8.ntf]

– Widget Catalog (8.5) [toolbox.ntf]

– Lotus iNotes Common Forms (8.5) [Forms85.nsf]

– Personal Journal (8) [journal6.ntf]




Multilingual Template Insight




New a Multilingual Application




Multilingual Application UI – Notes Client Region Setting




Multilingual Application

Multilingual binary resource

Mul ti l i ngual bi nary resource

DE FR SC TC J A KO

J A

Mul t i l i ngual Appl i cati on

DEFR

SC TC KO

J A

Mul ti l i ngual Appl i cati on

DEFR

SC TC KO

J A

Mul ti l i ngual Appl i cati on

DEFR

SC TC KO

Appl i cati on Server

J A

Mul t i l i ngual Appl i cati on

DEFR

SC TC KO

WEB Server LDAP Server

Mai l ServerDi rectory

Server

SMTP Server CA Server

Domi no Mul t i l i ngual Envi ronment



Complex Notes/Domino Multilingual Environment



MUI Notes Cultural Settings

Locale Settings

– Initialization for bookmark.nsf, name.nsf, log.nsf

– Default value for User interface settings, Region settings and Font settings

– Calendar&Date time

User Interface settings

– UI display

Region settings

– Content of Multilingual application

– Collation and Search

Fonts settings

– Characters display



Problems With Wrong Cultural Settings - 1

Wrong Locale Setting




Wrong Font Setting




Wrong Encoding Setting



Agenda




– iNotes

– Domino

Encoding


– LCU and ccSTR



Lotus Multi-byte Character Set (LMBCS)

The leading code is language code

– X12 means Traditional Chinese

• X12 A2 CC => 十• X12 B3 5C=> 許

Collation and Search



Lotus Multi-byte Character Set (LMBCS)

B a s e d o n I n d u s t r i a l E n c o d i n g ( S )

A S C I I

I B M / M S C P 8 5 0

I B M / M S C P 8 5 1

M S C P 1 2 5 5

M S C P 1 2 5 6

M S C P 1 2 5 1

I B M / M S C P 8 5 2

M S C P 1 2 5 4

I B M / M S C P 8 7 4

n o n e

I B M C P 9 4 3 , M S C P 9 3 2

I B M C P 1 3 6 3 , M S C P 9 4 9

I B M C P 9 5 0 , M S C P 9 5 0

I B M C P 1 3 8 6 , M S C P 9 3 6

U n i c o d e

L a n g u a g e s

E n g l i s h , v a r i o u s

L a t i n - 1 : E n g l i s h , W e s t e r n E u r o p e

G r e e k

H e b r e w

A r a b i c

C y r i l l i c

L a t i n - 2 : C e n t r a l a n d E a s t e r n E u r o p e

T u r k i s h

T h a i

C o n t r o l c h a r a c t e r s

J a p a n e s e

K o r e a n

T r a d i t i o n a l C h i n e s e

S i m p l i f i e d C h i n e s e

U n i c o d e ( U T F - 1 6 )

G r o u p

0 x 0

x 0 1

0 x 0 2

0 x 0 3

0 x 0 4

0 x 0 5

0 x 0 6

0 x 0 8

0 x 0 B

0 x 0 F

0 x 1 0

0 x 1 1

0 x 1 2

0 x 1 3

0 x 1 4

B a s e d o n I n d u s t r i a l E n c o d i n g ( S )

A S C I I

I B M / M S C P 8 5 0

I B M / M S C P 8 5 1

M S C P 1 2 5 5

M S C P 1 2 5 6

M S C P 1 2 5 1

I B M / M S C P 8 5 2

M S C P 1 2 5 4

I B M / M S C P 8 7 4

n o n e

I B M C P 9 4 3 , M S C P 9 3 2

I B M C P 1 3 6 3 , M S C P 9 4 9

I B M C P 9 5 0 , M S C P 9 5 0

I B M C P 1 3 8 6 , M S C P 9 3 6

U n i c o d e

L a n g u a g e s

E n g l i s h , v a r i o u s

L a t i n - 1 : E n g l i s h , W e s t e r n E u r o p e

G r e e k

H e b r e w

A r a b i c

C y r i l l i c

L a t i n - 2 : C e n t r a l a n d E a s t e r n E u r o p e

T u r k i s h

T h a i

C o n t r o l c h a r a c t e r s

J a p a n e s e

K o r e a n

T r a d i t i o n a l C h i n e s e

S i m p l i f i e d C h i n e s e

U n i c o d e ( U T F - 1 6 )

G r o u p

0 x 0

x 0 1

0 x 0 2

0 x 0 3

0 x 0 4

0 x 0 5

0 x 0 6

0 x 0 8

0 x 0 B

0 x 0 F

0 x 1 0

0 x 1 1

0 x 1 2

0 x 1 3

0 x 1 4



ccSTR

Lotus Shared Component

– 1.0 1992

– Used in SmartSuite, Notes, Lotus Script etc

Covers string functions in C run time lib

– 137 APIs

– Properties;Conversion;Collation;Iteration; etc

Supports multi platforms

– DOS, Win16, Win32, OS2, Mac

– AIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, S390, AS400



Lotus component for unicode

Started in 2000

– To replace ccSTR– Adapting ICU as core G11N engine– For Lotus Notes/Domino 6.0 and others

ICU features– Character set conversions– Collation – Word, line & sentence breaks– Normalization– Calendar support– Resource Bundles– Message formatting – Number & currency formatting– Time zones– Transliteration– Date & time formatting– Locales (170+ supported)



LCU

N o tes/D o m in o

C o lla tio n , co n v ers io n I te ra tio n A P Is

ccS T R S p ec ia l fu n c tio n co d eC u sto m ized IC U

T ran sfo rm a tio n lay e rs fo r F u n c tio n c a lls

ccS T R sp ec ia l fea tu re s A P Is

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