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| 23 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">Globalization support offered by the DITA-OT</h1>
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| 26 | <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) offers globalization support in the following areas:
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| 27 | Generated text, index sorting, and bi-directional text.</p>
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| 31 | <dt class="dt dlterm">Generated text</dt>
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| 33 | <dd class="dd"><dfn class="term">Generated text</dfn> is text that is rendered automatically in the output that
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| 34 | is generated by the DITA-OT; this text is not located in the DITA source files. The
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| 35 | following are examples of generated text:<ul class="ul">
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| 36 | <li class="li">The word "Chapter in a PDF file.</li>
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| 38 | <li class="li">The phrases "Related concepts," "Related tasks," and "Related reference" in XHTML
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| 39 | output.</li>
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| 46 | <dt class="dt dlterm">Index sorting</dt>
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| 48 | <dd class="dd">The DITA-OT can use only a single language to sort indexes.</dd>
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| 52 | <dt class="dt dlterm">Bi-directional text</dt>
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| 54 | <dd class="dd">The DITA-OT contains style sheets (CSS files) that support both left-to-right (LTR)
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| 55 | and right-to-left (RTL) languages.</dd>
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| 59 | When the DITA-OT generates output, it takes the first value for the @xml:lang attribute
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| 60 | that it encounters, and then it uses that value to create generated text, perform index
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| 61 | sorting, and determine which default CSS file is used. If no value for the @xml:lang attribute
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| 62 | is found, the toolkit defaults to US English.</div>
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| 67 | <div class="familylinks">
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| 68 | <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../readme/DITA-globalization.html" title="The DITA standard supports content that is written in or translated to any language. In general, the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) passes content through to the output format unchanged. The DITA-OT uses the values for the @xml:lang, @translate, and @dir attributes that are set in the source content to provides globalization support.">Globalizing DITA content</a></div>
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