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Article: UNICODE: breaking the language barrier: struggling to effect a single, global instance of your core business systems across multiple locations with different languages? UNICODE could be the answer.(GLOBAL LINkS)
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- Supply Chain Management Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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For those not in the know, operating a business in various foreign countries presents a challenge not only for businesses at large, but for the information management groups that support far-flung parts of the world. Specifically, I am talking about running your information systems in multiple languages. And this gets even more complicated to implement and support when a company is running all of its core business applications in a single environment.
Most companies either run systems in a single language, or split those systems up to run locally in a local language. So if you are in Spain, running systems in Spanish is quite ...