Adding unsupported second languages to databases

You use the Translation Data toolkit (TD toolkit) to add unsupported language to databases. The base language remains the same, and the other language is added as a second language. For example, a Canadian company can add French as a second database language.

Before you begin

XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) is an XML file with specific tags for the translation process. XLIFF files follow the 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8) standard for formatting languages.

About this task

You can add an unsupported second language to the database to allow non-English language users to view and make database changes. If the database is used in a base language other than English, you can translate the English language database into an unsupported base language. For example, you can translate a database to Estonian for Estonian-speaking users. You can add a secondary language, such as French, to the Estonian language database.

Procedure

  1. To export translatable data from the database, complete the following steps:
    1. In the tools\maximo installation subdirectory, run the export command.
    2. Run the tdtoolkit -export batch file. This batch file exports translatable data into the \tools\maximo\xliff\export directory.
  2. To translate all XLIFF files from English to the localized language, complete the following steps:
    1. In each XLIFF file, find every instance of the <target> </target> tags.
    2. Replace the text between the tags with the text in the language into which you are translating.
  3. To add the translated XLIFF files into the database, complete the following steps:
    1. Create the \tools\maximo\lc\xliff subdirectory in which lc represents the two-letter language code. The two-letter language code is in the MAXLANGCODE column in the LANGUAGE table.
    2. Copy the files in the \tools\maximo\xliff\export directory to the new subdirectory, \tools\maximo\lc\xliff.
    3. To import the XLIFF files into the database, in the installation directory, run the tdtoolkit -addlang -tllc -versionV7100-000 import command. For example, to import an Indonesian (unsupported) database, run the import command: tdtoolkit -addlang -tlid -version7100-000.


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