Language Pack Installation

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These instructions apply to Release 1.2 and above.

See Language Packs for a list of available language packs.

Currently, the installation of the Language Pack files is manual. At some point we will provide an easy install capability. The language files in a Language Pack need to be copied into a specific location, but the location is different for each application server. In the locations listed below, you will need to find the appropriate <custom config> folder for your installation - common ones are also listed below. You can change what languages are available for selection from the login screen - see below for details. You will need to restart the Alfresco server for the changes to take effect.

Contents 1 Language Files 1.1 Custom Configuration Locations 1.2 Login Language Options 1.3 Multi-byte Encodings

Language Files

• _XX_YY.properties - must be copied to <custom config>/messages

Custom Configuration Locations

• Tomcat - <Tomcat home>/shared/classes/alfresco (for example, C:\alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco)
• JBoss - <JBoss home>/server/default/conf/alfresco (for example, C:\alfresco\jboss\server\default\conf\alfresco)

Login Language Options

To change the language options offered on the login screen, you need to modify the web-client-config-custom file (you may need to rename the sample file):

• Edit 'web-client-config-custom.xml' file in the <custom config>/extension folder
• Find the '<languages>' section
• Add or remove language entries of the form '<language locale="XX_YY">LangName</language>'
• Save the file

  <!--
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Languages" replace="true">
     <languages>
        <language locale="fr_FR">French</language>
        <language locale="de_DE">German</language>
        <language locale="ja_JP">Japanese</language>
     </languages>
   </config>
  -->

• If you wish override to set default language you need to add the attribute replace="true" to the <config> element

Multi-byte Encodings

To view language packs for languages such as Japanese and Russian, you will need to have an appropriate multi-byte font installed on your computer. For example, 'Arial Unicode MS' on Windows PCs.