Chapter 8. National Language Support (NLS)

In order to make a portal accessible and attractive to a wider audience, it is necessary to provide the portal and its components in multiple languages. At a minimum, you should consider supporting the group 1 languages listed on Table 8-1 on page 251.

The WebSphere Portal architecture makes it easy and efficient to provide an NLS enabled portal. The enablement can be performed during development, deployment or runtime with the proper design decisions up front.

This chapter will guide you through several approaches to NLS enablement.

• Using resource bundles

• Translating whole resources

• NLS administration

• Working with characters

• NLS best practices