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## 6.9 About Running APEX in Other Languages

You can install a single instance of Oracle APEX with one or more translated versions.

The APEX developer and admin interface is translated into the 9 standard languages: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. Developers can choose to run the APEX development environment in any of the installed languages by simply selecting the language from the App Builder sign-in or home page.

The APEX runtime engine which is used by developers to create applications is available in the following additional languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, French - Canada, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal) (pt), Romanian, Russian, Serbian - Cyrillic, Serbian - Latin, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

A single instance of APEX can be installed with one or more of these translated versions.

In order to install other languages you must use the `apex_26.1.zip` file which contains the extra files as described in Installing Translated Versions of APEX. If you previously downloaded `apex_26.1_en.zip`, then you do not need to re-install APEX. Simply download `apex_26.1.zip` and unzip the file into the same directory where you unzipped `apex_26.1_en.zip`.

The translated version of APEX should be loaded into a database that has a character set that supports the specific language. If you attempt to install a translated version of APEX into a database that does not support the character encoding of the language, the installation may fail or the translated APEX instance may appear corrupt when run. The database character set `AL32UTF8` supports all the translated versions of APEX.

You can manually install translated versions of APEX using SQLcl. The installation files are encoded in `AL32UTF8`.

Note:

Regardless of the target database character set, to install a translated version of APEX, you must set the character set value of the `NLS_LANG` environment variable to `AL32UTF8` before starting SQLcl.

The following examples illustrate valid `NLS_LANG` settings for loading APEX translations:

    American_America.AL32UTF8
    Japanese_Japan.AL32UTF8

See Also:

Installing Translated Versions of APEX

Parent topic: Installing and Configuring Oracle REST Data Services and Oracle APEX