Multilingual Templates

Overview - building DCT to show the field labels and description in local language.

To allow your users to see the fields and description in the templates in their own language you can modify your DCT to have the labels and description typed in local language. The steps are:
1. Open the DCT in Notepad
2. Type in the field labels and description in local language. MSWin2K comes standard with the ability to type in more than one language.
3. Save the DCT as UTF-8 encoding. For some reason, Notepad will append some extra characters in the first line of the file.
4. Open the DCT in a text editor e.g. EditPlus, TextPad, UltraEdit, etc., and delete the extra characters at the first line. Save as is or Unicode. If text editor is already running in MSWin2K in the relevant locale, then do steps 1-3 in the text editor and save the file in Unicode or UTF-8 encoding.

Your DCT should be able to render the form with the labels and description in it's appropriate language.

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gzevin

Othman,

have you tried any other tools, eg, XML Spy? I used it to enter multilingual info...without all these extra steps. Am I missing something?
regards

Greg Zevin
Interwoven Consultant/Architect

Migrateduser

Greg,

Yes, Text Editors including XML Spy can do the job. For CJK languages, you have to use Notepad to enter the text if you are using English locale MSWin2K machines. As mentioned in Step 4, the text editors including XML Spy can be used to enter the text (e.g. CJK) directly if you are using MSWin2K in the appropriate locale.

I forgot to add also, that your callouts, workflows and CGI scripts that supports the templates and the workflows can contain multilingual comments and descriptions too if you save them in UTF-8 format as well.