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title: Internationalization and PingGateway
description: PingGateway supports internationalization (i18n) to facilitate localization for target audiences that vary in culture, region, or language.
component: pinggateway
version: 2026
page_id: pinggateway:reference:Internationalization
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pinggateway/2026/reference/Internationalization.html
revdate: 2025-04-01T17:53:34Z
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# Internationalization and PingGateway

PingGateway supports internationalization (i18n) to facilitate localization for target audiences that vary in culture, region, or language.

| Information type                                                                    | Character set/encoding                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| HTTP header names and values                                                        | [US-ASCII](https://www.charset.org/charsets/us-ascii)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| HTTP trailer names and values                                                       | [US-ASCII](https://www.charset.org/charsets/us-ascii)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Response entities for [StaticResponseHandler](StaticResponseHandler.html)           | The `Content-Type` header must be set.For text content, the character set must also be specified; for example:- `Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8`

- `Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8`The entity must conform to the content type.                                              |
| Text in request and response entities for [CaptureDecorator](CaptureDecorator.html) | If the `Content-Type` header is set for the request or response, the decorator uses it to decode the text in request or response messages, and then writes them to the logs.If the `Content-Type` header is not set, the decorator doesn't write the request or response messages to the logs. |
| Logs                                                                                | The system default character set where PingGateway is running.To use a different character set, configure `logback.xml` as described in [Change the character set and format of log messages](../maintenance-guide/logging.html#logging-format).                                               |
| PingGateway configuration files                                                     | [UTF-8](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3629/)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Hostnames                                                                           | [US-ASCII](https://www.charset.org/charsets/us-ascii)Non US-ASCII characters must be escaped with [Punycode](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3492) encoding.                                                                                                                          |
| URIs                                                                                | [US-ASCII](https://www.charset.org/charsets/us-ascii)Non US-ASCII and reserved characters must be escaped with percent-encoding.                                                                                                                                                               |