View source for Language Issues

As described in [[Change the Language | How does IMSMA know which language to use?]] it is the Regional settings on your computer in combination with the language files in the C:\IMSMAng\client\resources\com\fgm\imsma\lexicon folder which determine which language {{IMSMANG}} will use.

The best database field to use for checking if the translations are complete for a language is ''Status'' in Land in the Data Inventory Manager category ''Uncatgorised''.

==Case {{IMSMANG}} has all files for the language==__NOEDITSECTION__ 
In this case the regional settings is set to French (France) and the menus etc. are in French and the enumeration values are '''with''' translations.
[[Image:French w trans.png|500px|center]]
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'' The French translation of enumeration values have been imported into the database ''
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==Case {{IMSMANG}} does not have all files for the language OR the translations have not been imported to the database==__NOEDITSECTION__ 
In this case the regional settings is set to Spanish (Colombia) and the menus etc. are in Spanish but the enumeration values are '''without''' translations.

[[Image:Spanish wo trans.png|500px|center]]
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'' The Spanish translation of enumeration values have not been imported into the database ''
</div>

See [[Update the Localisation Files#trans.properties | this page]] how to create Spanish translation for enumeration values.

==Case {{IMSMANG}} does not have files for the language==__NOEDITSECTION__ 
If the regional settings is set to e.g. Swedish then {{IMSMANG}} will use the English IMessages.properties and the English ITerms.properties but there are no translations stored in the database for Swedish so enumeration values will be '''without''' any translation as in the case above.

[[Image:Swedish wo translation.png|500px|center]]
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'' There are no Swedish translation of enumeration values in the database ''
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If there are no plans to translate {{IMSMANG}} to the local language/variation then it is recommended to 
# check in Data Inventory Manager which is the code of the local language/variation (e.g. ''sv'' for Swedish)
# [[Export and Translate the Terms|export]] the English translations
# rename the file (e.g. trans_sv)
# '''update''' the first row in the file to the new language code
# [[Import the Translated Terms|import]] the file as the local language/variation. 

==Case {{IMSMANG}} have files for the language but you do not want to use them==__NOEDITSECTION__ 
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