Meaning of Multilingual support¶

Multilingual support means the system does not support just one language, but multiple languages are supported.

Multilingual support of intra-mart Accel Platform¶

Following 4 are the configuration elements to support multiple languages in intra-mart Accel Platform .

• Definition of language

It defines the language used in intra-mart Accel Platform .

• Definition of message

The translation for the messages to be shown to the user is provided in all the languages defined in the intra-mart Accel Platform .

Message is managed by “Language ID” and “Message code”.

• Language resolution

User can register the language to be used in intra-mart Accel Platform .

Default language is applicable if no language is registered.

For solution sequence of language, refer to Defined Access Context.

• Message Acquisition

intra-mart Accel Platform provides API (MessageManager) to acquire a message supported by multiple languages.

MessageManager acquires the appropriate message from “Message code” and “User’s language”.

Refer to Acquire multilingual messages for the usage of MessageManager.

Definition of Default Language¶

Languages defined by intra-mart Accel Platform at the initial status are as follows.

Language	Language ID
English	en
Japanese	ja
Chinese (Simplified)	zh_CN

• Language Master File

Languages defined in intra-mart Accel Platform are mentioned in XML file “Language master file”.

The system default format in initial state is “English format”.

• Configuration File

<CONTEXT_PATH>/WEB-INF/conf/locale-config/im-locale-default.xml

Message Property File¶

It is the file wherein messages are mentioned.

• Naming conventions of file

  {Arbitrary name} _ {Language ID} .properties
  

  • Example

  Language	File Name
  English	example_en.properties
  Japanese	example_ja.properties
  Chinese (Simplified)	example_zh_CN.properties

  Warning

  Do not enter underscore (_) in {Arbitrary name}.

  
  

  (Example) test_message_ja.properties

• File contents

{Message code} = {Translated message}

• Example

  example_en.properties

  I18N.MESSAGE.EXAMPLE=This is an example of message.
  

  example_ja.properties

  I18N.MESSAGE.EXAMPLE=\u3053\u308c\u306f\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u306e\u4f8b\u3067\u3059\u3002