Locales

The Locale ID contains the language and country abbreviations. For example, en-US, en-GB, or it-IT. The country segment determines the date and time format, the data separator, and the measurement system.

A project can support multiple locales that are configured in the

Locales

property of the

Project

node.

The presentation engine of a multilingual project uses the configured session locale to display the interface. The text in the user interface displays according to the translations available in the

LocalizationDictionary

object in the

Translation

editor.

For more information about the available locales, see Available locales.

The user locale is personal data that specifies the session locale at runtime. Set the user locale in the

Locale

property of the

User

object.

If the

FactoryTalk Optix Studio

does not support the main locale, use C# to have APIs return nodes and set multiple locales for the same user. The order of user locales determines the priority for the session locale.

When the session locale is set automatically at runtime based on the user locale and no user locales are configured, the session uses a fallback locale.