Re: DB design for multilingual applications

"Faraz" <Faraz_at_btinternet.com>  

> Hi,
>
> I would appreciate any help/pointers that anyone can give in a relational db
> schema for an application I am building.
>
> The problem is that I need to have some way of storing field names and
> lookup values in multiple languages. This is so that when a user logs in
> they can set their default language and then after that all the labels on
> forms and values from lookup tables are displayed in their chosen language.
> I have been given some suggestions but they would cause problems when new
> languages/translations are added (I don't want to have to change any code).
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Faraz

Does ORACLE support Arabic? I doubt it. Received on Fri Feb 04 2000 - 00:00:00 CET