摘要 |
<p>A distributed, interactive data processing system provided with the ability to allow concurrent multi-lingual use by a plurality of users having different national language preferences is further provided with the ability to allow a message to be sent across nodes in the data processing system and still display the message in the preferred national language of the receiving node. The sending node and user (1) determine the message identification of the message to be sent, and the names of the variables in that message as well as their content (5), and the identification of the user and node (3) to receive the message. A system service (6) is called and passed the message identification, variable names and data, and the identification of the receiver. The system service (6) connects to the receiving node and user (3). The message identification, the variable names, and the data associated with each variable are assembled into a string. At the receiving node (3), a system service (7) receives the passed string and places the variable data in the correct variables and invokes the system COMPOSE function. The resulting message is therefore displayed to the user of the receiving node (3) in the preferred national language.</p> |