Installing a language pack

All BIRT user interface components and messages are internationalized through the use of properties files. BIRT uses English as the default language, but supports other languages via language packs that contain the required properties files. The Eclipse community has translated BIRT 4.3.1 and provides language packs for many languages, including the following:

Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australian), English (Canadian), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Korean, Kurdish, Malayalam, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Pseudo Translations

The following instructions explain how to download and install a language pack for BIRT 4.3.1 on Windows.

How to download and install a language pack

To download and install a language pack, perform the following steps:

1 Using your browser, navigate to the BIRT language pack web page at:

http://www.eclipse.org/babel/downloads.php

2 From Babel Language Pack Zips, choose Kepler.

3 Select and download the compressed file for each language that you need.

4 Extract files in the language pack archive into the Eclipse installation directory.

For example, if C:/eclipse is your Eclipse directory, extract files into
C:/eclipse.

5 Start Eclipse and choose Window➛Preferences➛Report Design➛Preview.

6 Select the language of choice from the drop-down list in Choose your locale.

7 Restart Eclipse.

If Windows is not running under the locale you need for BIRT, start Eclipse using the -nl <locale> command line option, where <locale> is a standard Java locale code, such as es_ES for Spanish as spoken in Spain. A list of locale codes is available at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/locales-137662.html