The iSeries™ Access portlets display information from a variety of sources. Some of these sources are able to provide information in more than one language, or format information in a language-specific manner. Such language-specific information includes forms, error messages, help, formatted dates and times, and sorted lists.
The sources of information displayed by portlets include:
The iSeries Access portlets use the language selected for the user by the portal server to influence the language and format of information from the other sources. However, there is no guarantee that the information from a specific source will be in the selected language, or that all the information will be in the same language.
Messages and help which originate from i5/OS may not be in the selected language, depending on which language versions are installed for i5/OS. If the selected language is not installed, then i5/OS messages displayed by the iSeries Access portlets will be in the primary language of i5/OS.
For information on the language support in WebSphere® Portal, refer to in the WebSphere Portal information center.
The iSeries Access portlets support languages that WebSphere Portal does not support by default. For information about configuring WebSphere Portal to support additional languages, see in the WebSphere Portal Information Center.
For information on how WebSphere Portal selects the language for displaying portal content and instructions for affecting the language selection process for a user, see in the WebSphere Portal Information Center.
Because the information displayed by the iSeries Access portlets comes from a variety of sources, there is the possibility that the information is in more than one language. When multiple languages are displayed in a browser simultaneously, a multilingual character set, such as UTF-8, may be required to display all the characters correctly. For information on the character set used by WebSphere Portal to display portal content and for instructions on changing the character set, see in the WebSphere Portal Information Center.
To ensure that information is displayed properly, make certain that the Coded Character Set ID (CCSID) setting for the user profile is appropriate for messages originating from i5/OS.