The international language of business may be English, but the day-to-day language of application users is almost always their native tongue. Users work faster and more accurately when they understand screen prompts and error messages at the first reading. They are also more likely to view a new application in a positive light if it speaks their language.

In a world in which software and systems routinely cross borders, no developer can afford to overlook language differences.

PROIV Multilingual allows you to store a full set of translations for every piece of on-screen text - prompts, menu options, tool tips, error messages etc - and call them when needed. Language selection can be automatic dependent on the user profile or chosen manually by individual users.

The range of languages is extensive. Any left-to-right reading, single-byte language (ie a language in which each character can be represented by a single byte) can be maintained within PROIV Multilingual. In practice this covers most of Europe, the Americas, and much of Africa.

Future developments will be based on Unicode, which covers every language on the planet. At that stage, Multilingual will also allow for user-defined languages that reflect differences in terminology between industries and business types.

To find out more please see the PROIV Version 6 Multilingual Datasheet.