Language and locale support

IBM® Maximo® Application Suite supports the use of preferred language and locale for the Maximo Application Suite user interfaces. The preferences that are applied override the language and locale settings for the browser that is used to access Maximo Application Suite.

For example, if a user's preferred language is set to German and Maximo Application Suite is accessed from a browser set to English, the user interface is displayed in German.

Note: The following information is applicable to locale management for customer-managed Maximo Application Suite.
The user interface language
The languages that are displayed in the user interface are controlled by your browser settings, your preferred language setting, and the application base language.
Browser language setting
When users access the Maximo Application Suite user interface, the displayed language is set by their browser language settings, if the language is available. If the language that is selected in the browser is not available, the application base language is displayed.
Preferred language setting
Users can overrule the browser setting by selecting a preferred language, which is then displayed in supported applications no matter what the current browser language setting is. If the application does not support the preferred language setting, then the displayed language is controlled by the browser language setting.

Application-specific support

For a breakdown of the application-specific language support, see the following list.
Maximo Application Suite home page and Administration pages
The base language is English (en_US). Preferred language is supported.
Maximo Collaborate
The base language is English (en_US). Preferred language is supported.
Maximo Health
The base language is configurable. Preferred language is supported.
Maximo Manage
The base language is configurable. Preferred language is supported.
Maximo Predict
The base language is English (en_US). Preferred language is not supported.
Maximo Monitor
The base language is English (en_US). Preferred language is supported in 8.10 and later versions.
Maximo Visual Inspection
The base language is English (en_US). Preferred language is not supported.
Industry solutions
The base language is English (en_US). Preferred language is supported.
The following languages and locale are supported in Maximo Application Suite:
  • Arabic (ar)

    Supported only in Maximo Manage and IBM Maximo Real Estate and Facilities.

  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR)
  • Croatian (hr)
  • Czech (cs)
  • Danish (da)
  • Dutch (nl)
  • English (en_US)
  • English (en_UK)
  • Finnish (fl)
  • French (fr)
  • German (de)
  • Hebrew (he_IS)

    Supported only in Maximo Manage and IBM Maximo Real Estate and Facilities.

  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Norwegian (no)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
  • Slovak (sk)
  • Slovenian (sl)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Swedish (sv)
  • Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
  • Turkish (tr)