WebSphere WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Version 6.0.1 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Bidirectional language support

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.

Bidirectional attributes

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.

Note: The locale setting of the user interface (browser) defines the bidirectional language display and edit format. WebSphere ESB user interfaces must convert locale specific formats to the WebSphere ESB default 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.


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