E1 8.11 SP1 TR 8.95 and language support

Folks we have somewhat of a strange scenario with using languages in EnterpriseOne.

We would like to install double byte language however I believe that we do not want the users say in China to have their E1 screen display in Chinese, but we would like to have their reports generated in Chinese when they are outputted. Has anyone attempted this? Is it even something that can be done easily?

Also say we decide to have the users display in Chinese will their reports automatically output in Chinese or is there some type of special handling that needs to be done.

Also in 8.11 SP1 can languages be set at the role level as oppose to the user profile level.

Thanks for any info.

Hi Soul,

Had to support Chinese users a couple of years ago, even
if they were not running JDE, could learn a few tricks
about their fascinating language.

JDEdwards related :

1. Yes, you can set some reports to run on a given language
other than user settings (via overrides). For example,
you can have some users that login in English but run
some specifical reports in other language.

2. Languages are set at the user level, not role one.

3. You should also know which Chinese set you need
when you start installing JDE (there are different
downloads for Simplified and Traditional), and you'll
need to take them into account for Package Build and
WebGen.

General prerequisites :

OS

Check that your Windows (Deployment, Enterprise,
Clients, Web) servers do support Chinese character sets.

Are your users requiring traditional Chinese, simplified
Chinese? "Bopomofo" Chinese?

There are at least 3 different Chinese caligraphies
that need to be taken into account.

Check that all the corresponding TrueType fonts have
been installed on your PCs and server, plus on the
printers.

What about 3rd party apps such as Adobe Reader, MSOffice?

Database

Check JDE documentation, it explains SQL CodePage
settings for supporting Chinese symbols. Be careful
with these settings, it's not easy to revert them once
applied.

Application. Fortunately, JDE E811 supports Unicode, it
will make your life much easier!

Data entry. Unless your users have Chinese keyboards, you
will need to provide them some kind of IME (keyboard
app that translates Western alphabetic sequences into
hanzi (pictograms) according to a crude phonetic matching).

For example, if you type "zhong", it will display all the
pictograms that sound similarly (you should get a square
with a vertical crossing line, it means China in Chinese)
and then you click on the one you're needing.

Regards,