Localization

Localization

Geoportal interface can be localized to display in other languages. Geoportal leverage dojo nls for localization support, please reference dojo/i18n for details about dojo nls. In general, to add support for a particular language in Geoportal, it would be involve the following steps:

• Create a folder under [Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/app/nls and name it the same as the language code, e.g. "de" for German, "fr" for French, "es" for Spanish.
• Copy resources.js from [Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/app/nls to the sub folder just created.
• Open resources.js and localize the value of the variables to the specific language, save the file in proper encoding for the language.
• Remove text root: { (near the top) and }(near the bottom)

  ...
  define({
    root: {                
    ...
      }                    // second last line
  });       
  

• Save the updates
• Open resource.js under folder nls
• Update root and add the language reference "de": 1 (near the bottom of the file) to be like the following and save the updates.

  root: ({
  ...
    }),
    "de": 1
  });     
  

• Comment out locale: "en", in index.html under [Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal and save the changes.

The language chosen for display is selected based on the settings in a user's Internet browser.