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raghav rao
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    What are the languages (multi lingual like spanish, German, French etc) Lawson can support. How does it work ?
    John Henley
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      Language translation files are downloaded from Product Downloads section on Lawson's support site.

      For 8.0 Applications, following languages are provided:
      Dutch
      French
      French Canadian
      German
      Italian
      Latin Spanish

      For 8.1 Applications, following languages are provided:
      French
      French Canadian
      Latin Spanish

      As for why fewer languages are supported in 8.1 applications, I have not been able to get a reasonable answer from Lawson. However, I have found that loading the 8.0 translations will work OK with the 8.1 applications, although you do need to manually add some phrase translations.

      How it works is:
      - Download the language file from the Lawson support site
      - Use 'ldlang' to install it
      - Use 'locdef' to create locale in the Environment and assign a language to the locale
      - Use 'laua' to assign the locale to desired users
      - As Lawson applications are compiled, phrases on screens and reports are stored in the GEN table PHRASE & PHRASEUSE.
      - Use 'langdef' to make any manual translations
      - Translations are stored in GEN table PHRASEXLT
      - When the screens/reports are rendered, translations are done based on the language for the user's locale
      - Pre-rendered (.xml) Portal screen files are stored in $LAWDIR/[product line]/map/[language]
      Thanks for using the LawsonGuru.com forums!
      John
      raghav rao
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        Thank you, John
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