Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

Deployment and Configuration

OpenEdge supplies a number of configuration files—specifically, initialization files, message files, parameter files, and property files—that are especially useful for localizing applications. Some of these files you modify directly. Others you modify by using the Progress Explorer. Also, many OpenEdge products provide parameters that let you localize the output.

This chapter includes the following sections:

The progress.ini file and the Windows registry
The PROTERMCAP file
The PROMSGS file
Parameter files
The conmgr.properties file
Report Builder parameters
Additional guidelines

Many of the files and parameters described in this chapter depend on the CONVMAP file, which contains character attribute tables, case conversion tables, and code page conversion tables, all for a particular code page. For more information on the CONVMAP file, these tables, and code pages, see Chapter 2, "Understanding Code Pages," and Chapter 3, " Understanding Character Processing Tables."