Text elements help you to write language-independent programs. They are stored in the text pool of their language, and can be translated using the normal translation process.
Prerequisites
You have maintained text elements in the original language.
Procedure
You can also access the translation tool from the text element maintenance screen by choosing Goto ® Translation.
Result
You have created text pool for a different languages.
Once you have created text pools for different languages, you can change the language in which you run the program by changing one of the following:
Syntax
SET LANGUAGE < lg >.
The language <lg> can be a literal or a variable.
Once you have set a language (using either method), the system only looks in the text pool of that language. If it cannot find the relevant text symbols in that pool, it displays the default text specified in the program source code (if one exists), otherwise, it skips the corresponding WRITE statement.