Necessary Multilingual Objects

For each national language in a multilingual application, you should have:

A message file containing prompt text used for compiling device files and commands
A message file containing execution messages
A set of device display files, accompanied by the appropriate prompt message file
A set of device printer files, compiled with the appropriate prompt message file
A set of command definition objects, also compiled with the appropriate prompt message file
A set of Help panel group objects compiled with the appropriate prompt message file
A set of menu objects
A set of database files containing any translated code descriptions
A set of alternate collating tables, if necessary

Note: It may be useful to collect the commands necessary to create each message file into a CL program.

The following is a diagram of Use of Multi-lingual Objects: