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<title>Internationalizing Applications</title>
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<primary>Internationalization</primary>
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<para>When you internationalize your application &#8212; adapting your
application for use in different languages and regions &#8212; how much you
do depends on what you must later localize. Directory servers often support
localized user data. OpenDJ directory server supports use of the locales
provided by your Java installation, and also supports many language subtypes,
for example.</para>
<para>Therefore if your application is not end user facing and the
administrators managing your application all use the same language as you do,
you might be content to use language subtypes in LDAP filters, as described
in the section on <link xlink:href="dev-guide#about-filters"
xlink:role="http://docbook.org/xlink/role/olink"><citetitle>Working With
Search Filters</citetitle></link>.</para>
<para>For end user facing applications where you must return localized
messages, and for applications where administrators need localized log
messages, you can use the <link xlink:show="new"
xlink:href="http://commons.forgerock.org/i18n-framework/">ForgeRock I18N
Framework</link>.</para>
</chapter>