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  7. <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Globalization support offered by the DITA-OT</h1>
  8. <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The DITA Open Toolkit offers globalization support in the following areas: Generated text, index sorting,
  9. and bi-directional text.</p>
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  12. <dt class="dt dlterm">Generated text</dt>
  13. <dd class="dd"><dfn class="term">Generated text</dfn> is text that is rendered automatically in the output that is generated by the
  14. DITA-OT; this text is not located in the DITA source files. The following are examples of generated text:<ul class="ul">
  15. <li class="li">The word "Chapter" in a PDF file.</li>
  16. <li class="li">The phrases "Related concepts," "Related tasks," and "Related reference" in HTML output.</li>
  17. </ul></dd>
  18. <dt class="dt dlterm">Index sorting</dt>
  19. <dd class="dd">The DITA-OT can use only a single language to sort indexes.</dd>
  20. <dt class="dt dlterm">Bi-directional text</dt>
  21. <dd class="dd">The DITA-OT contains style sheets (CSS files) that support both left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left
  22. (RTL) languages.</dd>
  23. </dl>When the DITA-OT generates output, it takes the first value for the <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@xml:lang</code> attribute that
  24. it encounters, and then it uses that value to create generated text, perform index sorting, and determine which
  25. default CSS file is used. If no value for the <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@xml:lang</code> attribute is found, the toolkit defaults
  26. to US English.</div>
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  28. <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../user-guide/DITA-globalization.html" title="The DITA standard supports content that is written in or translated to any language. In general, the DITA Open Toolkit 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 provide globalization support.">Globalizing DITA content</a></div></div></nav></article></main></body></html>