International Character Considerations - Novell GROUPWISE 7 - SYSTEM Manual

The online help available in the GroupWise clients is provided in all languages into which the client
software is translated. The GroupWise client user guides available from the GroupWise clients and
on the GroupWise Documentation Web site are translated only into the administration languages. If
you try to access a user guide from a client that is running in a language into which the user guide
has not been translated, you can select any of the available languages.
By default, the GroupWise clients use UTF-8 for MIME encoding. This accommodates the character
sets used by all supported languages.
7.2 Administration Languages
You can run the GroupWise Installation program, administer your GroupWise system in
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ConsoleOne , and run the GroupWise agents in the following languages:
English
French
German
Portuguese
Spanish
When you select a language for a domain, it determines the sorting order for items in the GroupWise
Address Book. This language becomes the default for post offices that belong to the domain. You
can override the domain language at the post office level if necessary.
For example, if you set the domain and post office language to English-US, the Address Book items
are sorted according to English-US sort order rules. This is true even if some users in the post office
are running non-English-US GroupWise clients such as German or Japanese. Their client interface
and Help files are in German or Japanese, but the sort order is according to English-US standards.
By default, the agents start in the language selected for the domain. If that language has not been
installed, the agents start in the language used by the operating system. If that language has not been
installed, the agents start in English-US.
The POA also includes language-specific files in all client languages so that information returned
from the POA to the GroupWise client, such as message status and undeliverable messages, is
displayed in the language of the GroupWise client rather than the language in which the POA
interface is being displayed.

7.3 International Character Considerations

GroupWise client users have complete flexibility in the characters they use in composing messages.
Accented characters used by various European languages and double-byte characters used by
various Asian and Middle Eastern languages are all acceptable in the GroupWise client and can even
be combined in the same message text.
As an administrator, the only limitation you need to be aware of is that double-byte Asian and
Middle Eastern characters should not be used in directory names and filenames within your
GroupWise system. This limitation is based on operating system capabilities. You should also not
use double-byte characters in passwords. You are free to use double-byte characters in GroupWise
usernames, domain names, post offices names, and so on.
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