Localizing text

You can localize display text for object types and fields, and for a variety of application objects and custom return values. You can manage localized text that displays to users for predefined object types, object fields that are supplied by IBM OpenPages® or that you create, and application objects.

Locale codes

The OpenPages application provides translation support in several languages for predefined object text. Each supported language has a corresponding locale code that is listed under the object text. The locale code consists of a language code (for example, fr for French) and a country or region code (for example, FR for France).

The following table lists the supported languages with their corresponding locale code.

Table 1. Supported Languages and Locale Codes
Language	Locale Code
German	de_DE
U.S. English	en_US
U.K. English	en_GB
Spanish	es_ES
French	fr_FR
Italian	it_IT
Japanese	ja_JP
Brazilian Portuguese	pt_BR
Simplified Chinese	zh_CN
Traditional Chinese	zh_TW
Report Design Language Note: Users authoring reports in the reporting tool must select this language prior to creating or modifying reports.	en_CA

The default language for object text that has not been translated is U.S. English.

You can globally set a default language in which the application user interface is displayed to users and optionally enable auditing of translation label changes. For details see Set localization options.

You can perform the following tasks with locales:

To add new locales, see Adding locales.
To enable or disable locales, see Enabling and disabling locales.
To globally set a default locale that determines the language in which the application user interface is displayed to users, see Setting a default locale.