About language-culture codes and folders

This application uses standard industry language-culture designations to assign the language that displays in the user interface, in system messages, and in the online help. This topic explains how these language-culture designations are used in this application.

Culture codes and folders

A language name is paired with a region or country name to form a culture code. For example:


Language - Country	Culture Code
English - United States	en-US
English - United Kingdom	en-UK
Spanish - Spain	es-ES
Spanish - Argentina	es-AR
Japanese - Japan	ja-JP

Notice that a given language can have multiple countries associated with it, each culture code representing a different dialect of that language.

In this application, culture codes are used as names of subfolders under the working directory's folder. Each subfolder contains language-specific resources (which include the application's menus, dialogs, and strings, translated into the designated language) and might also contain help files translated into that language.

When the application starts, the system determines the current site settings and user-default settings, along with the settings in the Language IDs form, to display the user interface, the help, and system messages in the designated language, based on these settings. In each case, the language used is based on the language-culture designation.

If the language-specific resources are not available for your user-default settings, the user interface, messages, and/or help display in the application's base language (U.S. English).