If your Jolt application is intended for international use, you must address certain localization issues. Localization considerations apply to applications that execute from a client Web browser and applications that are designed to run outside a Web browser environment. Localization tasks can be divided into two categories:

• Adapting an application from its original language to a target language.
• Translating strings from one language to another. This sometimes requires specifying a different alphabet or a character set from the one used in the original language.

For localization, the Jolt Class Library package relies on the conventions of the Java language and the Oracle Tuxedo system. Jolt transfers Java 16-bit Unicode characters to the JSH. The JSH provides a mechanism to convert Unicode to the local character set.

For information about the Java implementation for Unicode and character escapes, refer to your Java Development Kit (JDK) documentation.