Changing the IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS language

IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® (DOORS) displays in the language of the locale set on your machine. If you want DOORS to display in a different language every time you start it, you can set an environment variable. For example, if you are in Canada, and your system locale is set to English, you can set DOORS to display in French every time you start it using an environment variable.

About this task

The available languages and the codes they use are displayed in the <DOORS_install_dir>\language\core folder.
Note: The environment variable does not control all of DOORS. Some parts of the interface might continue to display in the language of the locale, for example the Welcome screen.

Procedure

  1. In the Control Panel, double-click System.
  2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Environment Variables.
  3. In the User Variables panel, click New.
  4. In the Variable Name field, type ICULOCALE, which is the variable that controls the locale.
  5. In the Variable Value field, type the code of the language that you want to use.
  6. Click Setting > Time & language > Date, time, & regional formatting.
  7. Select the Region from the Region list and the Regional format from the Regional format list and click Change data formats. All DOORS components are displayed in the language that you have selected.
    Table 1. Language codes
    Language Code
    Brazilian Portuguese pt_BR
    Simplified Chinese zh
    Traditional Chinese zh_TW
    French fr
    German de
    Italian it
    Japanese ja_JP
    Korean ko
    Russian ru
    Spanish es
    Turkish tr
    English root

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