General Multilingual Support and Limitations

SMS 2.0 provides a broad range of supported languages and other capabilities that enable you to centrally manage a multilingual site hierarchy. For example, SMS 2.0 supports:

• Multiple language versions of the SMS server user interface.
• Multiple language versions of the SMS client interface (10 more than SMS 1.2).
• Double-byte and single-byte character sets for both servers and clients.
• Bidirectional display of languages that are read from right to left (when you install International Client Pack 5).

The following sections describe how you can use each of these features to centrally manage a multilingual hierarchy. This chapter provides language support information for SMS server language packages, as well as a list of the client languages supported by each of the server packages.