Introduction

Introduction

InterSystems IRIS supports localization so that you can develop applications for multiple countries or multiple areas.

First, on the client side:

• The Management Portal displays strings in the local language as specified by the browser settings, for a fixed set of languages.

• You can provide localized strings for your own applications as well. See String Localization and Message Dictionaries.

On the server side, there are additional considerations:

• InterSystems IRIS provides a set of predefined locales. An InterSystems IRIS locale is a set of metadata that specify the user language, currency symbols, formats, and other conventions for a specific country or geographic region.

  The locale specifies the character encoding to use when writing to the InterSystems IRIS database. It also includes information necessary to handle character conversions to and from other character encodings.

• When you install an InterSystems IRIS server, the installer sets the default locale for that server.

  This cannot be changed after installation, but you can specify that a process uses a non-default locale, if wanted.