Language – Exacq

Solution

Add a language to the list of preferred windows display languages.

Procedure:

Click Start and in the Search for apps, settings and documents bar, type language settings.

Click Language settings, then click Add a language.

On the Choose a language to install page, select the required language, then click Next.

On the Install language features page, select your required preferences, then click Install.

When the language download is complete, you are prompted to sign out and sign in to complete the installation.

When you sign in, your new language is available on the Language and region page as a Windows display language.

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For Ubuntu, adding a new locale (language) is a two-step process. First, determine the UTF8-encoded locale name, then generate the UTF8-encoded locale.

Determine Locale Name

Open a command line window and type:

less /user/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

This will list all of the locales Ubuntu supports. Scroll down to find the one that matches the ISO 639-1/ISO 3369-1 language codes of the language you are wanting to add.

Please be aware that some of the locales will not have a suffix (look closely – there is no period (‘.’) between the xx_YY language code and the following characters). Others will have a suffix of ‘.UTF-8.’ Still others will have suffixes like ‘@euro’ and ‘.EUC-KR.’ For ExacqVision, you must use the locale with the ‘UTF-8’ suffix.

For example, Irish in Ireland has these three locales:

... ga_IE.UTF-8 UTF-8 ga_IE ISO-8859-1 ga_IE@euro ISO-8859-15 ...

The first one has a ‘UTF-8’ suffix and should be used. The second and third ones do not have the ‘UTF-8’ suffix and should NOT be used.

Generate Locale

Since we’ve now determined the proper locale to generate, head back to the command prompt and type (once for each locale you wish to generate):

sudo locale-gen ga_IE.UTF-8

To actually trigger Ubuntu to generate the locale(s), type:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

To verify that the locale(s) were generated, type:

locale -a

Change the Locale

For any given run of any program

Also, you may run the exacqVision Client from the command line preceded by an env setting. For example:

env LANG=es_CL.utf8 /usr/local/exacq/client/edvrclient

will cause the exacqVision Client to run with the Chilean Spanish translation.

Permanently

To change the locale, you may change the entire operating system by going to System->Administration->Language Support and changing the default language dropdown. This will require a reboot.

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