Locale-specific viewing

The Viewer Java SDK can be used to enable locale-specific viewing for other languages when Microsoft Internet Explorer is used to access the viewer. Locale-specific viewing enables reports to be viewed with settings that are specifically tailored to the user's geographic location. This allows date and time formatting, special font sets, and currency symbols to be preserved. To use the Viewer Java SDK to display reports in other languages, the international fonts must be installed on the following machines:

• The Java Application Server.
• The machine on which Internet Explorer is running.
• The RAS or Page Server.

  This is only required when these components are used as report sources.

Although some of the report contents (such as currency symbols and DateTime formatting) also rely on a locale setting, this setting does not need to be the same as the locale setting on the RAS server or Page Server. In other words, client locale settings are used when locale-specific viewing is enabled with Page Server or RAS report sources.

Tip:    It is possible for the web browser's default language setting to be different from the system regional setting. For example, the system regional setting may be Chinese, but if the browser default language setting is English, the viewer is displayed in English.

To set the proper locale for the browser, select Internet Options from the Tools menu of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and click the Languages button. Move the language you want to use to the top of the list. To set the system regional setting, consult the documentation for your operating system.