Setting the Locale

You can set the user's locale to a language other than English in the JavaStation user interface, help text, and error messages.

JavaOS supports the locales listed in Table 11-2.

Table 11-2 JavaStation Locale Settings

Language	Locale Setting
German	de
English	en
Spanish	es
French	fr
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Korean	ko
Swedish	sv
Chinese	zh

JavaOS also supports the language variants American English and Simplified Chinese, shown in Table 11-3.

Table 11-3 JavaStation Country Settings

Country	Country Setting
United States	US
Republic of China	TW

To Change the Locale Setting

1. Set the user.language property.

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   -Duser.language=locale
   

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locale is one of the locale settings listed in Table 11-2.

1. If needed, set the user.country property.

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   -Duser.country=
   country
   

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country is one of the country settings listed in Table 11-3.

For instructions on setting JavaOS properties, see Chapter 9, Setting JavaOS Properties .

Modifying the Languages Displayed at Login

The localized version of the JavaStation software supports all the locales described in "Setting the Locale"." At login, the user is asked to choose one of these locales.

If you want to restrict or add to the locales presented at login, especially if you will be running an application that is localized for a language not listed in "Setting the Locale"," you will need to modify the login.LocaleList property.

To Modify the Languages Displayed at Login

1. Set the following JavaOS system property:

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   -Dlogin.LocaleList=locale-1
   ;locale-2;
   ... ;locale-n 
   

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   The default value of this property is:

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   -Dlogin.LocaleList=en_US;de;es;fr;it;ja;ko;sv;zh;zh_TW
   

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