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A good starting point, if you haven't been here already, would be the guidelines found at
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/guidelines/index.jsp There are some areas (like scaling) which are more vague than I (and most likely you) would like, but this site does provide a reasonable starting point (and references to industry databases which are attempting to get at more of the specifics). The discussion tends toward a java or C base without much reference to any given platform.
For character fields that involve internationalization Unicode is certainly the way to go in my mind -- with either UCS2 (CCSID 13488) or UTF16 (CCSID 1200) being preferred over UTF8 (CCSID 1208). I mention UCS2 only because of tactical implementation details. UTF16 should be the end target.
As for text strings it really depends on what your programming base will be. I generally use *MSGFs, but others may prefer message catalogs, etc. So long as the infrastructure supports formatting and resequencing of replacement data, transparent to the application, then it should be what you are most familiar with.
Bruce Vining
"DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm trying to get feedback on standard practices involved in the intranationalization of an app. This is just curiosity on my part, for now, but I expect there might be a project for this soon.
Here are some of the basic questions I have...
1) base field dimensions for currency fields. What scaling factors to use for aggregation field sizes?
2) Character fields should use some flavor of UCS; assuming that the %UCS2() bif make this flavor easiest to use?
3) Wondering about text constants: If building a new business logic interface that is intended to support web-service/webapp, are MSGF objects still the best way to support language-based resources?
I looked at this several years ago, and have a pretty decent grasp on IBMs recommendations at that time, but I wonder if these techniques are still preferred in light of IBM's modernization roadmap....
Thanks for any insights,
Eric DeLong
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