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  7. <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Globalizing DITA content</h1>
  8. <p class="shortdesc">The DITA standard supports content that is written in or translated to any language. In general, the DITA
  9. Open Toolkit passes content through to the output format unchanged. The DITA-OT uses the values for the
  10. <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@xml:lang</code>, <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@translate</code>, and <code class="keyword markupname xmlatt">@dir</code> attributes that are set in the
  11. source content to provide globalization support.</p>
  12. <nav role="navigation" class="related-links"><ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../user-guide/globalization-supported-in-dita-ot.html">Globalization support offered by the DITA-OT</a></strong><br>The 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="../user-guide/DITA-globalization-xhtml.html">Supported languages: HTML-based transformations</a></strong><br>The DITA Open Toolkit supports over 50 languages and language variants for the HTML-based transformations such as HTML5, XHTML, Eclipse Help, HTML Help, and TocJS.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../user-guide/DITA-globalization-pdf.html">Supported languages: PDF transformations</a></strong><br>The DITA Open Toolkit supports a slightly smaller set of languages for the PDF (pdf2) transformation. This transformation was donated to the DITA-OT project after the project inception, and it uses a different and larger set of generated text than the HTML-based transformations.</li></ul><div class="familylinks"><div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../user-guide/index.html" title="The User Guide is designed to provide basic information about using the DITA-OT. It is geared for an audience that needs information about running the toolkit, generating output, and troubleshooting builds.">DITA Open Toolkit User Guide</a></div></div><div class="linklist linklist relinfo relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br><div><a class="link" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/archSpec/translation.html" target="_blank">Localization overview in the OASIS DITA standard</a></div><div><a class="link" href="../dev_ref/plugin-addgeneratedtext.html" title="Generated text is the term for strings that are automatically added by the build, such as &#34;Note&#34; before the contents of a <note&gt; element.">Modifying or adding generated text</a></div></div></nav></article></main></body></html>