Language Handling Options

To use a language other than English as the default system language or as the Main Menu language, your library must have purchased and installed that language for WebPAC or another public interface. Contact Innovative for more information.

This page describes the Web options for the Language Handling options group. Review these options to determine any necessary setup that your organization might need to perform.

LANG

This option specifies that a language other than English is the default language of the system, and no alternate languages, including English, are offered to users. When this option is used, the library must also create Main Menu and OPAC Menu files for the specific language (for example, mainmenu_frc.html and opacmenu_frc.html in the case of French). See Creating Main Menu Pages in Languages Supported by Your Organization and The OPAC Menu Page for further details. Note that the language code must be in lowercase.

For example:

LANG=frc

ROOTLANG

This option specifies the language used by the Main Menu ("/") command link in the WebPAC. The value of this option is the three-character Innovative language code used by your organization. For example:

ROOTLANG=eng

NOTE

All pages subsequent to the Main Menu must have the appropriate language prefixes in order to navigate in the same language. See Main Menus in Multiple Languages for more information.