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<span class="pageTitle">Switch language view</span>
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[[Main Page]] > [[User manual]] > [[Getting started]] > Choose language
  
[[Main Page]] > [[User manual]] > [[UM-2|UM-2 Getting started]] > UM-2.5 Switch language view
 
  
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[[Image:UM-2.5.png|500px|right|thumb|Home page in English]]
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[[Image:mainMenu.png|500px|right|thumb|The language menu is in the top left-hand corner of the page; the current language is underlined]]
  
Any user can change the [[Glossary#Current language|current language]] to one of ICA-AtoM's [[Glossary#Supported language|supported languages]].
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Any user can change the [[Glossary#Current language|current language]] to one of ICA-AtoM's [[Glossary#Supported language|supported languages]] by clicking on a language in the [[Glossary#Language menu|language menu]]. ICA-AtoM switches the [[Glossary#User interface|user interface]] to the preferred language; if a translation of the [[Glossary#Database content|database content]] into the preferred language exists, ICA-AtoM switches to the translation; if no translated version exists, ICA-AtoM displays the description in its original source version.
  
# The current language appears in the [[Glossary#Language menu|language menu]] in bold font
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The language selection menu in the Trillium theme is located in the upper right-hand side of the screen. It is a drop-down menu.
# Select the preferred language from the [[Glossary#Language menu|language menu]]
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# ICA-AtoM switches the [[Glossary#User interface|user interface]] to the preferred language
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# If a translation of the [[Glossary#Database content|database content]] into the preferred language exists, ICA-AtoM switches to the translation; if no translated version exists, ICA-AtoM displays the description in its original source version
 
# Currently ICA-AtoM supports the following languages:
 
#* Arabic
 
#* Dutch
 
#* English
 
#* Farsi
 
#* French
 
#* German
 
#* Greek
 
#* Icelandic
 
#* Italian
 
#* Japanese
 
#* Korean
 
#* Portuguese
 
#* Slovenian
 
#* Spanish
 
  
 
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Support for Eastern language characters (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) is not installed by default in Microsoft Windows version previous to Windows Vista. To install Eastern language character support in older Windows versions, please visit:
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Support for Eastern language characters (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) is not installed by default in Microsoft Windows previous to Windows Vista. To install Eastern language character support in older Windows versions, please visit:
  
 
* [http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/2kintlsupp.mspx Windows 2000]
 
* [http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/2kintlsupp.mspx Windows 2000]
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See also in this manual [[UM-7.4.5|UM-7.4.5 Administer ICA-AtoM > Customize settings > Add or remove a language]] for how to remove and restore languages and [[UM-5|UM-5 Translate content/interface]] for how to translate in ICA-AtoM.
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See also in this manual [[add/remove languages]] for how to remove and restore languages and [[translate]] for how to translate in ICA-AtoM.
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[[Category:User manual]]

Latest revision as of 17:59, 5 September 2012

Please note that ICA-AtoM is no longer actively supported by Artefactual Systems.
Visit https://www.accesstomemory.org for information about AtoM, the currently supported version.

Main Page > User manual > Getting started > Choose language


The language menu is in the top left-hand corner of the page; the current language is underlined

Any user can change the current language to one of ICA-AtoM's supported languages by clicking on a language in the language menu. ICA-AtoM switches the user interface to the preferred language; if a translation of the database content into the preferred language exists, ICA-AtoM switches to the translation; if no translated version exists, ICA-AtoM displays the description in its original source version.

The language selection menu in the Trillium theme is located in the upper right-hand side of the screen. It is a drop-down menu.

Support for Eastern language characters (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) is not installed by default in Microsoft Windows previous to Windows Vista. To install Eastern language character support in older Windows versions, please visit:

See also in this manual add/remove languages for how to remove and restore languages and translate for how to translate in ICA-AtoM.