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Procedure documentation Internationalizing Applications  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

Internationalization (I18N) is the process of making software portable to other locales. To internationalize the application, you provide language-specific resources for any displayed text elements.

Caution

An international application must not contain any language-specific text elements in its source code. For maintenance reasons, SAP strongly recommends not to enter UI text elements directly in the coding.

The following text elements are displayed on the screen and therefore are candidates for translation:

      UI element texts

      Message texts

      View titles

      Window titles

      Simple type names

The Developer Studio provides tool support for making Web Dynpro applications available in several languages.

The default locale of an application can be defined as an application’s property. You can use a specific search process to determine the session locale used by the Web Dynpro runtime environment when starting an application.

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Sequence of Language Display

Procedure

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       1.      To create a multilingual application, use the UI text tools provided by the Developer Studio. Do not enter UI text elements directly in the coding.

The system automatically creates S2X files that contain all information required for a correct translation.

       2.      Create the language-specific versions and translate the text elements.

More information: Translating UI Texts

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