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Internationalization in Federation Security Services

Federation Security Services supports the following features for I18N internationalization:

• Federation Security Services configuration objects, Java and C++ code are encoded in UTF-8 format for the internationalization purposes.
• SiteMinder supports the creation and consumption of default and customized SAML 1.x, SAML 2.0, and WS-Federation assertions with multibyte user ids and attribute values.
• All target and redirect URLs are encoded per HTTP 1.1 RFC 2616 so multibyte path and file names are handled correctly.

If assertions will contain multibyte characters, you need to set your operating system's LANG setting to UTF-8 format, as follows:.

LANG=xx_xx.UTF-8

For example, for Japanese, the entry would be:

LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8