When the reference data includes elements in multiple languages, Address Verification can return address data in the following languages:

The main spoken language of the region to which each address belongs. This is the default language for the address in the reference data.
Any other language that Address Verification supports for an address. For example, the Belgium reference data contains address elements in Flemish, French, and German.

The reference data might contain data for a single address element or for a complete address in multiple languages. For example, Address Verification can return all address elements for Ireland in the English language and can return street names, locality names, and province names in the Irish language. Additionally, the reference data might specify different default languages for different parts of a country. For example, in the Switzerland reference data, the default language for addresses from Zurich is German, from Geneva is French, and from Ticino is Italian.

By default,

Informatica Address Verification

returns the addresses in the default language of the corresponding reference address database entry.

You can set one of the following values for the

PreferredLanguage

parameter:

If you set

PreferredLanguage

to a language that is not available in the reference address database, the

Preferredlanguage

setting defaults to the DATABASE value. In such cases,

Informatica Address Verification

returns an extended element result status (EERS) value of E. The value indicates that the output uses the database language because the reference database does not contain the information in the language that you specified.

The language or format in which

Informatica Address Verification

returns the country name depends on the value you configure for the

CountryType

validation parameter.

If the input address contains an address element that the reference database does not contain,

Informatica Address Verification

copies the element to the result output. For such elements,

Informatica Address Verification

returns the information in the same language as that of the address input. An element input status value of 1 indicates that the reference address database does not contain the element. An element result status value of 1 indicates that

Informatica Address Verification

has copied the information from the input because the reference database does not contain the information.