Effective in version

5.10.0

,

Informatica Address Verification

provides native support for Hong Kong addresses.

Address Verification

can read and write Hong Kong addresses in the Chinese language or the English language. Use the

PreferredLanguage attribute

to select the preferred language for the addresses. Use the

PreferredScript attribute

to select the preferred character set for the address data.

For example,

Address Verification

can match the following Hong Kong addresses with address information in the reference data:

By default,

Address Verification

returns Hong Kong addresses in Chinese. The DATABASE option on the

PreferredLanguage attribute

specifies the default language. To return Hong Kong addresses in English, set the

PreferredLanguage attribute

to ENGLISH.

By default,

Address Verification

returns Chinese-language addresses in the Hanzi character set. The DATABASE option on the

PreferredScript attribute

specifies the default character set. If you specify ENGLISH as the preferred language, set the

PreferredScript attribute

to any Latin or ASCII option. When you select a Latin script,

Address Verification

transliterates the address data into Pinyin.

You can find the

PreferredLanguage attribute

and the

PreferredScript attribute

in the

Result

element in the

Parameters.xml

file.