WebSphere ESB uses the bidirectional language format of ILYNN (implicit, left-to-right, on, off, nominal), which is also the Windows bidirectional language format. All other bidirectional language formats must be converted before being introduced to WebSphere ESB.
There are five attributes that must be set for the proper bidirectional language format. The attributes and settings are listed in the table below.
Letter Position | Purpose | Values | Description | Default Setting |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Order Schema | I or V | Implicit (Logical) or Visual | I |
2 | Orientation | L or R | Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left | L |
3 | Symmetric Swapping | Y or N | Symmetric Swapping is on or off | Y |
4 | Shaping | Y or N | Text is shaped or not shaped | N |
5 | Numeric Shaping | H, C, N | Hindi, Contextual, Nominal | N |
It is the responsibility of any client applications, external components (such as Web services, stateless session beans, and custom code), or anyone building solutions to run on WebSphere ESB, to transform the data into the supported bidirectional language format.
For more information on bidirectional language, see the technical articles on IBM developerWorks, available at www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/techarticles/bidi/bidigen.html.