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About The Language in Which Siebel Installers and Wizards Run

This topic is part of Planning Your Siebel Deployment.

When you start Siebel installer programs, the Siebel Image Creator utility, or Siebel Configuration Wizards, the language in which the program runs (the user interface text) is determined by the language for the locale of your operating system, where this language and locale are supported for the current version of Siebel Business Applications and for the installer or other type of wizard.

Installers for Siebel CRM server modules and client modules are based on Oracle Universal Installer and run in the current language corresponding to the regional and language options settings on the server or client computer, where the current language is one of the following: U.S. English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, or Chinese Traditional. For any other current language setting, the installer runs in U.S. English.

Siebel Configuration Wizards and Siebel Image Creator also use the current language corresponding to the regional and language options setting. The programs can run in all of the languages corresponding to the available Siebel language packs, except Arabic, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Thai, or Turkish. If the current language is one of these or any language not supported for Siebel Business Applications, then the program runs in U.S. English.

For all of the Siebel installers and Configuration Wizards, and Siebel Image Creator, in order to change the user interface language, you must change the current operating system language and locale. Make sure that the locale of your operating system is set to the desired choice of your language. The language that you select must be one of those supported for Siebel Business Applications, as described earlier.

NOTE:  If a supported locale that you intend to use does not exist on the supported operating system, then use another existing supported locale, so that you can proceed with installation and initial configuration in a familiar language; for example, DE_DE.UTF-8 for German (on AIX), en_US.UTF-8 for U.S. English (on Oracle Solaris), and so on. For a list of supported locales for your UNIX operating system, see Specifying the Locale for Your UNIX Operating System.

For information about installing language packs for Siebel Business Applications, see the applicable installation task topic and see About Installing and Deploying Siebel Business Applications with Multiple Languages.