the rpg dude - episode 2 - globalization
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The RPG Dude
Take a seat whilst the meeting gets started…
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The RPG Dude
His Globalization
perspective
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Globalization preambleGlobalizing an app, means:
• Enabling it to be multilingual
• Enabling “local” info like : • local currency symbol, date format, decimal separator…
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Globalization preambleLanguages are based on characters, their principals terminologies are:
• Encoding Scheme• Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID)
• Character Set (CS)• Code Page (CP)
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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
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Globalization preambleWhat really matters in your app is:
• Switching between languages
• Storing/printing/displaying every language’s characters
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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
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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.
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Now, let’s talk aboutThe RPG Dude
-and particularly about
His Globalization perspective
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Remember the brother of our RPG dude?
Hi dude
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Well, he found a new job!
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And travels everywhere!
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But he needs his app to be multilingual.
Help ??
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So, he called our RPG dude
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The RPG Dude
Hehe, our dude is now in good shape, remember?
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The RPG Dude
No more bunny time!
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The RPG Dude
No more exile!
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The RPG Dude
Our dudeHas the key solution!
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The RPG Dudelooksoftware IDE
Multilingual/DBCS/Unicode automated integration with Open Access: openlook
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The RPG Dudelooksoftware IDE
Multilingual/DBCS/Unicode automated integration
• Multi-tier architecture
• Automated extraction of your literals
• Automated/manual translation in Unicode dictionary file
• Automated switching between languages
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The RPG Dudelooksoftware IDE
Multilingual/DBCS/Unicode automated integration
• 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
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The RPG DudeUnicode set of command
Multilingual/DBCS/Unicode automated integration
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)
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The RPG Dude
And now, our RPG dude has a happy life.
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The RPG Dude
“Thank you looksoftware!”
He just sent us a postcard.
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The RPG Dude
But his brother is traveling all the time, is he working ? …
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