Hardware installation and national languages

When installing or changing a device on your system, you must make sure that the device is configured correctly to reflect the keyboard ID that matches the character set and code page of the job CCSID.

Changing the keyboard configuration of a device results in different behavior, similar to adding a new display or printer to the system.

Panels, menus, and messages used by the installation process do not support right-to-left presentation of data. Therefore, online information for the installation appears left to right, in English, for bidirectional languages (such as Arabic and Hebrew).

• Console device
  Make sure that your console device is configured to support the default code page of the primary language you are going to install.
• Workstation considerations
  In a multilingual environment, different workstations support different languages on the same iSeries™ server.
• Considerations for changing printers
  When changing printers, consider the areas of data interchange, data stream, fonts, and host printer emulation.