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Redirection

APS does not actually display its own messages when an authentication-time event occurs. Instead, it redirects the user to particular pages. There are two ways to localize this communication.

One way is to create a "generic" page for each type of redirection that performs its own adaptation for the user's locality, much the same as SmCPW.

The other way is to write specific pages for every event for every locality, then perform redirection overrides based on some value in the user's record (described elsewhere in this document). This mechanism is not recommended because of the following case: Suppose the user typically accesses your site from her office in Russia. The preferred language in her Directory entry indicates Russian (which uses a Cyrillic font). Now suppose she's visiting New York and accesses some sort of kiosk browser that does not have a Cyrillic font installed. Since the selection is based on the directory entry instead of the browser entry, the page will try to display Cyrillic text on a browser that does not support it.