Changing InfoExplorer Languages

Procedure

On a system with multiple languages installed, each language information base has its own directory in the /usr/lpp/info/lib directory. For example, the information base for German is installed in the /usr/lpp/info/lib/de_DE directory, while the information bases for U.S. English are installed in the /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US directory.

InfoExplorer determines what languages to use for database content separately from the language to use for messages (like menu bar entries or button titles). The language used for messages is determined by the value of the LANG or the LC_MESSAGES environment variable. If LC_MESSAGES is set, that value is used; otherwise, the value of LANG is used to determine which messages to use.

InfoExplorer uses several methods for determining the language to use for database content. The precedence is as follows:

1. If the INFOLANG environment variable is set, then InfoExplorer attempts to read databases from the /usr/lpp/info/lib/<$INFOLANG> directory.

2. If no libraries are found there or INFOLANG environment variable is not set, then InfoExplorer uses the INFOLOCALE environment variable. You can specify a list of locales in the INFOLOCALE environment variable by separating each locale with a colon. The first locale specified is the first language that InfoExplorer attempts to read. InfoExplorer continues trying to read databases based on the locales specified in the INFOLOCALE environment variable until a match is found.

3. If no libraries are found using the INFOLOCALE environment variable, the environment variable LC_MESSAGES is used.

4. If no libraries are found using the LC_MESSAGES, the LANG environment variable is used.

5. If no libraries are found, then InfoExplorer defaults to using the libraries installed in /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US.