Assign Languages and Locales to External Collections

In applications that support multiple locales, each supported locale has a corresponding interface. You assign a locale or language to a collection to determine the available interfaces, as follows:

• Collections that have a specified locale are available only in the interface that corresponds to that locale

• Collections that have a specified language are available in all interfaces that correspond to the base language.

• Documents in collections that use automatic language detection are available in all interfaces that correspond to their assigned language.

For example, an application may support the following locales:

• English United States

• English Canada

• French Canada

• French France

You can assign collections to locales to make them available to only one interface. For example:

• The EnglishCanadadocs collection is assigned to the English Canada locale, and is available only in the English Canada interface.

• The FrenchFrancedocs collection is assigned to the French France locale, and is available only in the French France interface.

You can assign collections to languages to make them available to all interfaces based on that language. For example:

• The Englishdocs collection is assigned to the English language, and is available in the English United States and English Canada interfaces.

• The Frenchdocs collection is assigned to the French language, and is available in the French Canada and French France interfaces.

You can assign collections to Auto to make documents in the collection available to any interfaces based on the detected language. For example, the Mixedlanguagedocs collection contains both English and French documents. English documents in the collection will be available in the English United States, English Canada interfaces, and French documents will be available in the French Canada, French France interfaces.