R12 PO Upgrade Recommendations : Multilingual strategy in PO Output for Communications Forms

Gurus,

We have been discussing the best strategy for multilingual support in the BiPublisher based xsl-fo PO forms used in the PO Output for Communications.  Presently we see a few possible strategies:

 

1.       Single, Message Table Based Template Strategy:
Oracle uses the Fnd.Messages table to store all non-data text displayed on the forms.  Upon print, fax, email, etc, it will use the selected language, and merge labels and data onto a single template.

2.       Mixed, Message Table Based Template Strategy:
One could use the Fnd.Messages strategy in step 1 above, but deploy separate templates for any language that does not fit the main template.