Re: Multi Language Support on the AS/400

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:

> At 10:26 PM 6/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >We have a location in Mexico that we will be adding to our AS/400 and
> we
> >need to provide Spanish language support. Is anyone doing anything
> like
> >this ? Any performance hits/storage hits or other problems ?
> >
> NLS enablement on the AS/400 is pretty good.  There is no performance
> hit,
> but there is a storage hit.  You get a library named QSYS29xx (where
> 29xx)
> is the national language you want.  I do some development of software
> that
> runs in multiple languages (in this case French).  In my case QSYS2928
> (the
> French library) is about 191MB (V3R7).
>
> I do hear complaints about the quality of the transilation.  The
> Spanish
> (from Spain) last I heard (1993) complained that translation was done
> in
> South America (e.g.: not to their liking).  The Germans claim that
> 'data
> base faults' translates as 'data base mistakes'!
>
> There are many ways to invoke translation.  The IBM suggested method
> is to
> create a separate interactive subsystem which will be used in the
> foreign
> language.  You then specify the subsystem parameter SYSLIBLE, which
> puts
> QSYS29xx on the library list ahead of QSYSLIBL.
>
> Al

Thanks Al - sounds  like I get to have MORE fun ;-)

I WONDERED about just how well ANY computer-based language "translator"
could be just based on  what friends and co-workers from around the
world tell me about different dialects, etc. various languages can yield
that can cause some fairly MAJOR differences in translation...

Chuck

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