Globalization

Localization

Application

PPM is available for the following languages:

The PPM user interface and log output are available in the language that you specify at login. Irrespective of the interface language, any data imported is displayed in the language of the source system from which it was extracted.

Documentation

The online help supplied with PPM and the supplementing documentation in PDF format are available in German, English, and Japanese.

Calendar

Currently, PPM supports the Gregorian calendar only.

Bidirectional text display

The bidirectional display of RTL-based interface texts is supported only with limitations, that is, interface texts (for example, favorites, measures, dimension names) are not always represented uniformly. The layout of the controls is always uniform irrespective of the interface language that you select.

Standard date format

The English USA date formate is used by PPM as default. To switch to the English GB date format, see the documentation PPM Installation, chapter Adapt date format to British English language area.