Progress
Translation Manager
Guide


Determining the Number of Projects to Create for an Application

To determine the number of projects to create when you translate your application, you must understand the concepts of character sets, code pages, and language families.

A character set is the grouping of alphabetic, numeric, and graphic characters that are related to one another as defined by a standards organization, operating system vendor, or hardware manufacturer. Character sets also include communication and printer control codes—nonprinting characters like backspace, tab, and keyboard characters. For example, the iso8859–1 code page is widespread in Western Europe, North America, and Latin America. Code pages often share characters.

Translation Manager supports three distinctly different types of character sets:

A code page is a table that maps a numeric code to each character in a set of related characters. The computer uses these numeric codes to interpret and process textual data.

For more information on code pages and character sets, see the Progress Internationalization Guide.

You have various options when deciding how many projects to create for an application. You can choose to have all language versions supported by a single project. This allows you to create r-code with all languages. However, you can also work with multiple projects where each project supports a subset of all the languages being translated. Before deciding on the number of projects, take the following into consideration:


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