Changing the display language of the product installed on Linux

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 Linux.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:
  • 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

  1. Open a terminal and log in as a root user.
  2. Run the following command to change the directory to the location where you installed the product:

    cd <directory path>

  3. Run the following command to change the language of the product:

    ./eclipse -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 -nl fr
    The product UI is displayed in French.

Results

You have changed the display language of the product until you restart the product.