As you prepare to deliver your globalized application, you should consider how globalization issues might affect the ways that your customers install and use your application.
The following topics briefly discuss these issues.
Hardware, in this context, means the physical keyboards, displays, printers, and controllers that make up an iSeries™ server. The extent to which this hardware supports national languages might impose limitations on the degree of support that you can provide with an application. You must refer to the reference manuals for non-IBM hardware to determine what limitations, if any, are imposed by that hardware.
Translating is changing the meaning of character data from a set of concepts, ideas, and statements in one human language to a culturally similar meaning in another human language. You can follow some basic rules to ensure translation goes smoothly. A subset of these rules is provided in the User interfaces topic.
Delivering your application to customers includes the processes of packaging, servicing, supporting, and educating users about your application. You must consider various tasks when following these processes in different countries and cultures throughout the world. See Packaging and Installation Process for more information about the processes associated with the delivery of your application to customers.