Set up Windows for language switching
There are three areas in Windows operating systems that might need to be set up so that an application can use language switching effectively:
- language installation
- locale formatting
- font support
The operating systems supported by FactoryTalk View SE support all of the necessary fonts by default. To make language switching work, you do not need to install any Language Interface Packs (LIP).
If you are working in one of these operating systems, you can ignore the following instructions for installing languages and adding font support.Language installation
It is recommended that you install all the languages that an application will use, on both the development and runtime computers. Installing languages enables the Windows font support features, which allow applications to display characters for different languages using a single application font.
Locale formatting
Windows locale formatting determines how the application displays time, date, and floating point values at design time and runtime.
When the application language is switched, the default locale settings for the new language are used, even if that language has not been installed.
It is strongly recommended that you do not edit the default locale settings for the following reasons:
- You can only modify the formatting for the current user locale. The formatting for all other locales is set to their default values. This means that if you select English (United States) as the current user locale, modify its formats, and then select another locale, the modifications will be lost.
- You can only modify settings for the current user. If more than one user will be logged in, they will all have to make the same modifications.
- You can only modify locale settings for languages that are installed.
Font support
Windows font support features allow an application to display characters that are not supported in its current language. If the application's strings are exported and translated into Chinese, for example, and then imported, the translated strings will be displayed in the Chinese font correctly, regardless of the applications current language.
If font support is not turned on, any characters that the language cannot display appear as undefined " ? " characters.
In Windows XP, font support is turned on automatically when you install a language or language group. Once you install the East Asian language group, for example, font support for these languages, including Chinese, is turned on.
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