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<html lang="en"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2020"><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT"><meta name="description" content="The DITA standard supports content that is written in or translated to any language. In general, DITA Open Toolkit passes content through to the output format unchanged. DITA-OT uses the values for the xml:lang and dir attributes that are set in the source content to provide globalization support. You can create custom plug-ins to support additional languages."><meta name="keywords" content=", dir, index:lang, languages, supported, translating, localizing, globalizing, strings"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/commonltr.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/dita-ot-doc.css"><title>Globalizing DITA content</title></head><body id="dita-globalization"><header role="banner"><div class="header">
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<p>DITA Open Toolkit</p>
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</div></header><nav role="toc"><ul><li><a href="../index.html">DITA Open Toolkit 3.6</a></li><li><a href="../release-notes/index.html">Release Notes</a></li><li><a href="../topics/installing-client.html">Installing DITA-OT</a></li><li><a href="../topics/building-output.html">Building output</a></li><li><a href="../topics/input-formats.html">Authoring formats</a></li><li><a href="../topics/output-formats.html">Output formats</a></li><li><a href="../parameters/index.html">Parameters</a></li><li><a href="../topics/html-customization.html">Customizing HTML</a></li><li><a href="../topics/pdf-customization.html">Customizing PDF</a></li><li><a href="../topics/adding-plugins.html">Adding plug-ins</a></li><li><a href="../topics/custom-plugins.html">Creating plug-ins</a><ul><li><a href="../topics/plugin-benefits.html">Plug-in benefits</a></li><li><a href="../topics/plugin-configfile.html">Plug-in descriptor file</a></li><li><a href="../topics/plugin-coding-conventions.html">Coding conventions</a></li><li><a href="../topics/plugin-dependencies.html">Plug-in dependencies</a></li><li><a href="../topics/plugin-use-cases.html">Plug-in use cases</a></li><li><a href="../topics/html-customization-plugins.html">Custom HTML plug-ins</a></li><li><a href="../topics/pdf-customization-plugins.html">Custom PDF plug-ins</a></li><li class="active"><a href="../topics/globalization.html">Globalizing DITA content</a><ul><li><a href="../topics/globalization-support.html">Globalization support</a></li><li><a href="../topics/plugin-addgeneratedtext.html">Customizing generated text</a></li><li><a href="../topics/globalization-languages.html">Supported languages</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="../topics/migration.html">Migrating customizations</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="../topics/troubleshooting-overview.html">Troubleshooting</a></li><li><a href="../reference/index.html">Reference</a></li><li><a href="../topics/dita-and-dita-ot-resources.html">Resources</a></li></ul></nav><main role="main"><article role="article" aria-labelledby="ariaid-title1">
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<h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Globalizing DITA content</h1>
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<p class="shortdesc">The DITA standard supports content that is written in or translated to any language. In general, DITA Open
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Toolkit passes content through to the output format unchanged. DITA-OT uses the values for the
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<code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@xml:lang</code> and <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@dir</code> attributes that are set in the source content to provide
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globalization support. You can create custom plug-ins to support additional languages.</p>
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<nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/globalization-support.html">Globalization support</a></strong><br>DITA Open Toolkit offers globalization support in the following areas: generated text, index sorting, and bi-directional text.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/plugin-addgeneratedtext.html">Customizing generated text</a></strong><br>Generated text is the term for strings that are automatically added by the build, such as "Note" before the contents of a <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement"><note></code> element.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/globalization-languages.html">Supported languages</a></strong><br>The following languages are supported for all PDF, XHTML, and HTML5-based transformation types.</li></ul><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../topics/custom-plugins.html" title="In addition to adding plug-ins from the plug-in registry at dita-ot.org/plugins, you can create custom DITA-OT plug-ins of your own to modify the default output, add new output formats, support new languages, or implement DITA topic specializations.">Creating custom plug-ins</a></div></div><div class="linklist relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br><ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/archSpec/translation.html" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Localization overview in the OASIS DITA standard</a></li></ul></div><div class="linklist relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br><ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2017/dita-ot_day.html#Open_Toolkit" target="_blank" rel="external noopener" title="Presents the DITA Community i18n Plugin, which provides an integration with the ICU4J libraries. The i18n plugin provides support for locale-specific grouping and sorting, including dictionary-based Simplified Chinese, as well as facilities for doing locale-specific word and line breaking.">Locale-Aware Sorting and Text Handling in the Open Toolkit</a></li><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2016/dita-ot_day.html#DITA-OT_Who_does_what" target="_blank" rel="external noopener" title="While tools can be used to simplify many things, localization can still be scary. In this session, we'll go over how the toolkit is set up to handle publishing in multiple languages: what comes out of the box? What should you expect to do on your own? And how has this changed over the last few releases? Also: stories of panic from the past!">Internationalization and the DITA-OT: Who does what?</a></li></ul></div></nav></article></main></body></html> |