Support for Canadian English and French in OBIEE

Question

I would like to know whether OBIEE supports Canadian English & Canadian French. I have looked at several documents and links pertaining to the "Language Support", but am still unclear whether they are supported.
Many thanks for your assistance.
Regards,
Hareesh

Answer 1

Well it's certainly no small task you're undertaking there, but there are a couple of ways of doing it as far as I know.
The first is to store all the phrases in all languages in an XML file, then pull the correct outputs depending on the current language. For example: (pseudo, obv)
<xml>
    <dict lang="EN-US">
        <phrase id="1" value="Hello there. Welcome!" />
        <phrase id="2" value="Sorry to see you go, goodbye!" />
    </dict>
    <dict lang="FR">
        <phrase id="1" value="Bonjour. Bienvenue!" />
        <phrase id="2" value="Ah, le chat des ami. Au revoir!" />   
    </dict>
    <dict lang="ES">
        <phrase id="1" value="Hola! Bienvenido!" />
        <phrase id="2" value="Lo siento, pero tu hermana es muy guapa!" />   
    </dict>
</xml>
You then load each language into a structure in the APPLICATION scope (call it APPLICATION.LANG), then pretty much everywhere in your code you need to output something you'd instead do:
<cfoutput>#APPLICATION.LANG[SESSION.language].phrase1#</cfoutput>
Or similar.
The other approach is similar, but involves having the phrases saved in database tables and doing a similar thing.
And sadly no, you'll struggle to find anything that can reliably translate for you - certainly not a database.
O
PS languages are not my strong point, as you may have noticed.