IBM Streams 4.3.0

Selecting the display language for Streams Studio

Use this procedure to determine the display language you want to use for Streams Studio.

Before you begin

By default, Streams Studio uses the default language setting of your computer. However, you can also set the display language manually by modifying the streamsStudio.ini file.

About this task

You can select one of the following display languages for Streams Studio:

Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
English (en)
French (fr)
German (de)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Korean (ko)
Russian (ru)
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
Spanish (es)
Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)

Procedure

To select a display language for Streams Studio, complete the following steps:

Locate and open the following file: Studio-installation-directory/StreamsStudio/streamsStudio.ini.
Search for -vmargs.
Insert the following line -nl lang above the -vmargs line, where lang specifies the selected language ID.
For example, to select Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), specify:
```
-nl pt_BR
-vmargs
```
Note:
- If you are running Streams Studio on Windows, ensure that the file encoding is set to UTF-8 for languages that use extended character sets, such as Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Korean, or Japanese. To do this, add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 below the -vmargs line of the streamsStudio.ini file.
  For example, to select Traditional Chinese (zh_TW), specify:
```
-nl zh_TW
-vmargs
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
```
- If your locale is set to zh_HK (Traditional Chinese - Hong Kong), Streams Studio might display Simplified Chinese instead. To fix this, specify zh_TW in the arguments of the streamsStudio.ini file.
- If you want to change the display language for the current session only, enter the following argument -nl lang -clean in the command line of the current working directory. For example:
```
./streamsStudio -nl fr -clean
```
Some of the messages in the Streams Console are determined by the language settings of the user. For Windows this is determined by the user ID that is logged on for the remote workspace connection.
If the messages are not displayed in the correct language, set the LANG environment variable to export LANG=lang.UTF-8 in the home-directory/.bashrc shell initialization file for the user specified in the remote workspace connection.

For example:
export LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8