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Languages

For each database, you can manage the languages in which users can enter text, such as the names of models and objects, or other language-dependent attribute values. A set of database languages is provided automatically when a new database is created. The selected language in which the user interface is displayed is automatically used as the database language. Users can change the language used or edit attribute values in multiple languages at the same time. You can do the following:

Add a language in which users specify text attributes, such as the names and descriptions of database items.

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration.

  2. Click Databases Databases.

  3. Select the database and click Properties Properties > Database languages Languages.

  4. Click Add language Add language.

  5. Select the required language from the listed system languages that are available on your machine.

  6. Enable Use as default language to use this language as the default language. The default language of a database is used to display text that was not entered in the current language.

  7. Select the font that you want to use for this language. Do not select fonts written in red. These fonts cannot display letters in the selected language.

  8. Select the related script. The script defines the font family for which the font is used, for example, Western or Japanese.

  9. Select the color, style, and the font size as required.

  10. Click Add language.

The language is available to all users of the database.

The text font is selected when adding a language to a database. You can change this font.

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration.

  2. Click Databases Databases.

  3. Select the database and click Properties Properties > Database languages Languages.

  4. Select the language and click Edit font Edit font.

  5. Select the font that you want to use for this language. Do not select fonts written in red. These fonts cannot display letters in the selected language.

  6. Select the related script. The script defines the font family for which the font is used, for example, Western or Japanese.

  7. Select the color, style, and the font size as required.

  8. Click Change font.

Text in this language uses the selected font.

To ensure that users can read text regardless of the selected language, you can choose a default database language. The default language of a database is used to display text that was not entered in the current language. For example, names that are not entered in the current language are otherwise displayed as <Untitled>, which makes work more difficult. If users enter all language-dependent text attributes in the default language, the displayed written text is legibly, though not uniformly in one language. To change the default language, proceed as follows.

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration.

  2. Click Databases Databases.

  3. Select the database and click Properties Properties > Database languages Languages.

  4. Select the language in which all attribute values are specified and click Set as default Use as default.

The selected language is used as an alternative database language. Note that you must enter all language-dependent attribute values in the selected language to prevent items from being displayed as <Untitled>.

Delete database languages that are no longer required.

Warning

If you delete a language, all attributes specified in the deleted language are also deleted from the database. To prevent data loss, back up the database before you delete languages.

  1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration.

  2. Click Databases Databases.

  3. Select the database and click Properties Properties > Database languages Languages.

  4. Select the languages you want to delete. You cannot delete the default language.

  5. Click Delete Delete.

The selected languages are no longer available. All attributes specified in the deleted languages are deleted.