Changing the display language of the product installed on Windows
When you want to use the product in a different language other than the display language of your computer, then you can change the language of the product by using the command-line interface in Windows.
Before you begin
- Modified the product that is installed in your preferred language by using IBM Installation Manager to install the other translated product packages.
About this task
If for any reason, you want to use the product that you have installed in your preferred language to be displayed in any other supported language, you can run an eclipse command to change the display language of the product.
After you run the eclipse command, you must close the product if it is running and
relaunch the product for it to display in the changed language.
Note: After you changed the language and for any reason closed
the application, the product reverts to display in the default language that is
set in your computer when you relaunch the product.
Procedure
- Right-click the Command Prompt application and select Run as Administrator.
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Run the following command to change the directory to the location where you
installed the product:
cd <directory path>
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Run the following command to change the language of the product:
eclipse.exe -nl <language_code>
Where <language_code> is the language code of the language that you want to use.
You must provide the <language_code> for the language that is listed in the following table:Language Language code Czech cz English en French fr German de Hungarian hu Italian it Japanese ja Korean ko Polish pl Portuguese (Brazil) pt_BR Russian ru Spanish es Simplified Chinese zh_CN Traditional Chinese zh_TW Turkish tr For example, if you installed the product in English and you want to view the product display in French, you must run the following command:eclipse.exe -nl fr
The product UI is displayed in French.
Results
You have changed the display language of the product until you restart the product.