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- <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Globalization support offered by the DITA-OT</h1>
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- <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The DITA Open Toolkit offers globalization support in the following areas: Generated text, index sorting,
- and bi-directional text.</p>
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- <dt class="dt dlterm">Generated text</dt>
- <dd class="dd"><dfn class="term">Generated text</dfn> is text that is rendered automatically in the output that is generated by the
- DITA-OT; this text is not located in the DITA source files. The following are examples of generated text:
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- <li class="li">The word "Chapter" in a PDF file.</li>
- <li class="li">The phrases "Related concepts," "Related tasks," and "Related reference" in HTML output.</li>
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- <dt class="dt dlterm">Index sorting</dt>
- <dd class="dd">The DITA-OT can use only a single language to sort indexes.</dd>
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- <dt class="dt dlterm">Bi-directional text</dt>
- <dd class="dd">The DITA-OT contains style sheets (CSS files) that support both left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left
- (RTL) languages in HTML based transformations. PDF supports both LTR and RTL rendering based on the document
- language. The <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@dir</code> attribute can be used to override the default rendering direction.</dd>
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- </dl>When the DITA-OT generates output, it takes the first value for the <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@xml:lang</code> attribute that
- it encounters, and then it uses that value to create generated text, perform index sorting, and determine which
- default CSS file is used. If no value for the <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@xml:lang</code> attribute is found, the toolkit defaults
- to US English. You can use the <a class="xref" href="../parameters/configuration-properties.html" title="The DITA-OT uses .properties files and internal properties that store configuration settings for the toolkit and its plug-ins. Configuration properties are available to both Ant and Java processes, but unlike argument properties, they cannot be set at run time.">configuration.properties</a> to change the default language.</div>
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