CON7701 Al-Nubani-CON7701-EBS I18N MLS 2014 V03

Oracle E-Business Suite
Internationalization
Overview & Multilingual Features
Maher Alnubani
Senior Development Director
E-Business Suite Development
October 02, 2014
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Program Agenda
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GlobalizaLon: MeeLng Local and Global Requirements
Unicode & MulLlingual Features
Regional Preferences (Locale)
InternaLonal Calendars
MulLlingual ReporLng
Q&A
Program Agenda
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Q&A
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Single, Complete Data Model
Unicode
Multilingual Support (MLS)
Currencies
Timezones
Address Management
Endeca Extensions for eAM

Simplied Chinese
Approvals Mobile App

Japanese
Desktop IntegraLon
Simplied Chinese
BI Publisher (PDF Reports)
Bi-direcLonal Language Support
Bi-direcLonal Language Support

Rich UI
BI Publisher Sample Report
Program Agenda
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Q&A
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Unicode Support
Unicode is a universal character set covering live scripts of the world in a
simple and consistent manner
Oracle database supports two Unicode character sets:
AL32UTF8: based on latest Unicode standard, currently 7.0
UTF8: on maintenance mode and supports Unicode 3.0 standard
AL32UTF8 is the default database character set of Oracle E-Business Suite

installaLon in R12.1 and above, when mulLple languages are selected
UTF8 in 11i and R12.0
AL32UTF8 is the character set of VISION demo database in R12.1 and above
UTF8 in 11i and R12.0
NaLve character sets are sLll supported
Moving to Unicode
Why convert to AL32UTF8?
Support more characters and languages
(e.g., convert from ZHS16GBK to AL32UTF8 to addiLonally support Korean)
Industry Standard
Fusion Apps only support AL32UTF8 character set
Oracle Database MigraLon Assistant for Unicode (DMU), a unique next-generaLon

migraLon tool providing an end-to-end soluLon for migraLng your databases from
legacy encodings to Unicode
Oracle consulLng services (OCS) oers character set conversion services
EBS internaLonalizaLon team provides acLve support for OCS character set conversion
projects
Release 12.1 Technology Stack

3-Tier Logical Architecture

Client
ApplicaWon
Database
10g
Web Listener
JSP
BC4J
UIX
BI Publisher
JDBC(UTF-8)/SQL Net (NLS_LANG)
HTTP/S CLIENT IANA ENCODING
OC4J
Forms
10gR2 | 11g
Global Single
Data Model
RAC & ASM
EBS Release 12.2 Technology Stack

3-Tier Logical Architecture

Client
ApplicaWon
Database
R2
Web Listener
WebLogic JSP
BC4J
UIX 11g
BI Publisher
Forms
JDBC(UTF-8)/SQL Net (NLS_LANG)

WebLogic Server
Global Single
Data Model
RAC & ASM
EdiWon-Based
RedeniWon
NaLonal Language Support

NLS
Ability to run in users naLonal language

Ability
to use date, number, and currency formats specic to

certain country or region
SomeLmes referred to as Locale
E-Business Suite NLS patches are special patches that provide
language translaLons including user interface labels, menus, and
seed data. The term "translaLons" is ooen used as a synonym
MulLlingual Support
MLS
Oracle E-Business Suite supports running mulLple languages in

the same instance simultaneously
Any number of supported languages (aka NLS patches) can be
installed in a given instance
E-Business Suite Multilingual Support

Language and Country Support
Supports 38 languages
American English, Albanian*, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French,
CroaLan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew,
Hungarian, Italian, Indonesian*, Japanese, Kazakh*, Korean, LaLn American
Spanish, Lithuanian*, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
Simplied Chinese, Serbian* (LaLn & Cyrillic), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, TradiLonal Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian*, and Vietnamese*
Supports all 120** countries supported by Oracle Database

* Introduced in R12.1 and above
** 28 countries added in R12.2.2
Flexible MLS Architecture
US
F
ZHS AR
Trans Trans Trans
Trans
MLS Architecture
E-Business Plaqorm
Add more language translaLons as you need

Flexible MLS Architecture

A MulWlingual EnLty(Table) is one for which textual arributes are
maintained for all languages
Base table stores non-textual arributes
TranslaLon table stores textual arributes and their translaLons
for each installed language
Language view joins the two tables, displaying textual arributes
in users language
Base and TranslaLon Tables

Base Table
xxxx_B
TranslaLon
Table
xxxx_TL
For each row in base table, N rows exist in translaLon table

corresponding to the N installed languages
Any Number of Languages
Base and TranslaWon Table Structure
Arabic
English
Simplied
Chinese
Base table row contains language-
independent arributes
One row for each installed language

contains translated textual arributes
One Language View

Language View Structure
Language view joins

non-textual and textual
arributes
Base Table
xxxx_B
TranslaLon Table
XXXX_TL
Language View
XXXX_VL
Lightweight MLS
Enable a Language with English UI

A new feature introduced in R12.1.3

Ability
to enable a language without applying the corresponding NLS patch

English UI
All supported languages can be lightweight enabled
Fully patched and lightweight languages can coexist at the same instance
SelecLve (parLal) NLS patching is not supported; either full or lightweight MLS is
supported for each language, but not both at the same Lme
Can move to a full translaLon at any Lme, simply by applying

corresponding NLS translaLon patches
Lightweight MLS
English User Interface

Setup
or customer data is shown in the corresponding language

Use loaders such as FNDLOAD to enter and maintain language data
May also use 'globe icon in Oracle Forms based UI to translate language data
Custom Reports
Create custom reports or translate Oracle seeded reports
No need to apply NLS patches

In R12.2, its possible to move a language from full MLS to lightweight MLS
Lightweight MLS
Lightweight-Only Languages
Introduced in R12.2.3

Catalan

Bulgarian
Can be enabled only as a lightweight language because there are no

translaLons, i.e., no NLS patches, available
Allows customers to meet the local laws and statutory requirements
More languages are planned for the future releases
Customer Setup Data TranslaLon

Oracle provides UI translaLon through NLS patches
Customer can translate setup data using:
Forms UI globe icon
PersonalizaLon of UI strings
FNDLOAD (data loader) for mass-translaLon
Forms UI Globe Icon
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iSetup MulLlingual Support

Introduced in release R12.1.3
MulLlingual customers can uLlize iSetup to gradually implement
languages
Customers can choose the set of languages to extract: all, one
(session), or a subset of implemented languages
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Program Agenda
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Q&A
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Prole OpLons
Prole opLons control regional preferences (locale)
Administrators can set proles at various levels
Site
ApplicaLon
Responsibility
User
Each user can override default sevng with preferred values

User Preference Page

Regional Prole OpLons
Locale
Site level prole opLons

Client IANA encoding
Server Lme zone
User level prole opLons

Language
Territory
Timezone
NaLve client encoding
Date format
Numeric characters
LinguisLc Sort new in 12.2
User Preference Page
Site Level Prole OpLons

ICX: Client IANA* encoding
IANA character encoding determines character set of HTML-based UI on
client Ler (Browser)
Should be set to an IANA encoding equivalent to database character set
Should be set at site level

* IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
User Level Prole OpLons

ICX: Language
Default applicaLon language, if no language is selected at login Lme
Determines language of email noLcaLons
Normally set to users preferred language
ICX: Territory
Should be set to user's territory (country or region)
Used in conjuncLon with language code to pick the correct translaLon resources such
as BI Publisher templates
Determines certain cultural convenLons in some reports such as local Lme, date,
numeric, or monetary convenLons

FND: NaLve Client Encoding
Should be set to client (user) PC encoding
Determines character encoding of le name and content
While exporLng/imporLng spreadsheet data
While uploading/downloading text les
We recommend using the pre-set default value
User-Preferred Timezone Support

Introduced in 11.5.10 CU2
Users can specify their local Lmezone for both display and entry of date-
with-Lme elds
Date elds without Lme component are not aected by this feature
The data in the database conLnues to be stored in the standard corporate
Lme zone
We strongly recommend that the database Lmezone should not be
changed once it has been set and data has been entered
User-Preferred Timezone ConguraWon
Database must be set to the standard corporate Lmezone

Congured to use the Wmezlrg.dat le rather than Wmezone.dat le
Server OS Lmezone must be set to the standard corporate Lme zone
Must be started in the standard corporate Lmezone
ApplicaLon Ler must be set to the standard corporate Lme zone

All servers OS must be set to the standard corporate Lmezone
All JVMs (Java Virtual Machine) must be started in the standard corporate
Lmezone
User-Preferred Timezone ConguraWon - conWnued

Site level proles
SERVER_TIMEZONE_ID: Server Timezone must be set to the same standard
corporate Lmezone as the database. It should not be changed once set because
exisLng data wont be updated
ENABLE_TIMEZONE_CONVERSIONS: 'Enable Timezone Conversions must be set to
'Yes' (or 'Y')
CONC_MULTI_TZ: Concurrent: MulLple Time Zones') must be set to 'No (or 'N')
User level prole

CLIENT_TIMEZONE_ID prole opLon (preference Timezone) must be set to the user
preferred Lme zone

ICX: Date format mask
Can be set to user's preferred date format
ICX: Numeric characters

Supported combinaLons:
Comma / period (10,000.00)
Period / comma (10.000,00)
Space / comma (10 000,00): introduced in 12.1.2
Space / period (10 000.00): introduced in 12.1.2
Single quote / comma (10000,00): introduced in 12.1.2
Single quote / period (10000.00): introduced in 12.1.2
AddiLonal Number Group Separators
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LinguisLc Sort Support

Introduced in R12.2.2
Earlier releases support binary sort only, which produces reasonable
results in naLve character sets but not when using Unicode
Languages have their own specic sorLng rules and this is known as
linguisLc sort
When enabled, UI (OA Framework, Forms) shows linguisLcally sorted data
based on user preferred linguisLc sort
No linguisLc indexes are required for linguisLc sort support

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User Level Prole OpLon
ICX: NLS Sort (ICX_NLS_SORT )
Can be set at the user and site level by administrators
LinguisLc sort currently not supported for concurrent programs and

reports
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Prole OpWon Values Introduced in 12.2.2
Program Agenda
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InternaLonal Calendar Support

Introduced in release 12.1.1

Besides
Gregorian, 12.1.1 supports the following calendars:

Arabic Hijrah: The ocial calendar in Saudi Arabia with Arabic Hijrah month names
English Hijrah: The ocial calendar in Saudi Arabia with English transliterated Hijrah
month names
Thai: The ocial Thai solar calendar of Thailand
Users can choose their preferred calendar

Internal date representaLon is normalized to Gregorian

Oracle Forms UI Date Picker
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Oracle Forms UI Date Fields
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OA Framework Date Picker
Thai Calendar Date Picker

Hijrah Calendar Date Pickers
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InternaLonal Calendars Support

Inline Date Pickers
English Hijrah
Gregorian
Thai
Arabic Hijrah
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BI Publisher
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Gana Chart
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First Day of The Week Support

Introduced in release 12.1.2
Users in countries where Sunday is not the rst day of the week can now
choose their preferred rst day of the week
A new system prole opLon that can be set at the site, applicaLon,
responsibility and user levels
FND: Calendar Week Start Day
This prole changes rst day of the week of Oracle ApplicaLon Framework
and Forms date pickers only, but does not aect business logic or reports
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First Day of The Week Support
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BI Publisher Language Support

BI Publisher ships with a full set of
Unicode Fonts
TrueType font embedding and
subsevng
No need for expensive language-
specic printers
BI Publisher supports
CJKV languages
BiDi languages
Unicode
MLS
BI Publisher Translatability
Communicate with your partners around the world
No dependency on installed languages
No dependency on DB character set
Create a template for any language/territory

Translate template or send to 3rd party
Support for XLIFF*
Supports 96 locales

* XLIFF: XML LocalisaLon Interchange File Format
ExecuLng MLS Concurrent Programs

Users can submit a single concurrent program or report requests in

mulLple
languages at the same Lme using:

Forms
Standard Request Submission (SRS) UI
OA Framework (web) SRS UI: introduced in R12.1.1
Users can specify languages, territories, and numeric characters
Output can be routed to dierent printers based on language

CompleLon noLcaLons can be routed to users based on language

ExecuLng MLS Concurrent Programs

System AdministraWon: - Requests > Schedule
Language Sevngs region allows

user to set the NLS opLons
Oracle ApplicaLon Framework Export

MulWlingual Support
StarLng from 12.1.3 release, you can choose between comma and tab as a

delimiter
when exporLng les

FND_UNICODE_IN_EXPORT prole opLon determines the export le
Unicode encoding
You can choose between UTF-16 lirle endian (UnicodeLirle) or UTF-8 for
export le Unicode encoding regardless of browser or plaqorm
Good workaround for some old versions of Microsoo Excel's Unicode data
import limitaLons

Oracle ApplicaLon Framework Export

MulWlingual Support
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Summary
Upgrade to 12.1.3 or 12.2 to get the latest internaLonalizaLon support
Convert to AL32UTF8
Adopt lightweight MLS
Use iSetup to support phased language rollouts
Take advantage of the internaLonalizaLon new features
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References
Reference Material
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Reference Material
GlobalizaLon Guide: R12 (MOS 393861.1); R11i (MOS 333785.1)
I18N Update Notes: R12 (MOS 393320.1); R11i (MOS 222663.1)
Hijrah and Thai Calendar Support: R12.1 & R12.2 (MOS 807393.1)
Lightweight MLS: R12.1.3 and higher (MOS 1077709.1)
MigraLng Oracle ApplicaLons Character Set to Unicode (MOS 124721.1)
Oracle ApplicaLon Concepts Guide, Chapter 3
Installing Oracle ApplicaLons for InstallaLon Procedure
NLS Release Notes on Support Site

Q&A
GlobalizaLon Terminology

InternaLonalizaLon - I18N

A sooware design process to make a product exible to funcLon worldwide

Such product can handle data of dierent languages, allow for a choice of locales,
and locale specic formats
TranslaLon - T9N
TranslaLng product UI strings and Help from English to another language

Products must rst undergo translatability tesLng to ensure code and les meet
translaLon standards
LocalizaLon L10N
Developing country-specic funcLonality to provide compliance with local

statutory requirements
Best handled product development teams based on global market requirements
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InternaLonalizaLon Terminology
Data handling and display

Locale support
Text processing, data ow, font handling, data entry, search etc.
Support of Bi-DirecLonal scripts, CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese),
Thai, and Unicode
Date format, number format, currency, name/address order etc.
Translatability and MLS
Externalize product UI strings from code logic

Dene runLme translaLon process (Catalogs, les, etc.)
Support for all languages on the same server (MLS)
I18N opLons
InstallaLon, AdministraLon, User

User Prole, Locale, Character set, Format, DirecLon etc.
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Safe Harbor Statement

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

GlobalizaLon: MeeLng Local and Global Requirements

Unicode & MulLlingual Features

Regional Preferences (Locale)

GlobalizaLon: MeeLng Local and Global Requirements

Unicode & MulLlingual Features

Regional Preferences (Locale)

GlobalizaLon: MeeLng Local and Global Requirements

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

Endeca Extensions for eAM

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Approvals Mobile App

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Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

BI Publisher (PDF Reports)

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

Bi-direcLonal Language Support

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Bi-direcLonal Language Support

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BI Publisher Sample Report

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

GlobalizaLon: MeeLng Local and Global Requirements

Unicode & MulLlingual Features

Regional Preferences (Locale)

AL32UTF8 is the default database character set of Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Database MigraLon Assistant for Unicode (DMU), a unique next-generaLon

Release 12.1 Technology Stack

JDBC(UTF-8)/SQL Net (NLS_LANG)

HTTP/S CLIENT IANA ENCODING

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

RAC & ASM

EBS Release 12.2 Technology Stack

JDBC(UTF-8)/SQL Net (NLS_LANG)

HTTP/S CLIENT IANA ENCODING

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RAC & ASM

NaLonal Language Support

Ability to run in users naLonal language

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

Oracle E-Business Suite supports running mulLple languages in

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E-Business Suite Multilingual Support

Supports all 120** countries supported by Oracle Database

Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its aliates. All rights reserved. |

Flexible MLS Architecture

Add more language translaLons as you need

Flexible MLS Architecture

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Base and TranslaLon Tables

For each row in base table, N rows exist in translaLon table

Any Number of Languages

Base and TranslaWon Table Structure

One row for each installed language

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One Language View

Language view joins

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Enable a Language with English UI

Can move to a full translaLon at any Lme, simply by applying