Displaying messages in your national language on UNIX and Linux® systems

To display messages from a different national language message catalog, you must install the appropriate catalog and set the LANG environment variable.

About this task

Non-AIX® platforms
Messages in U.S. English are automatically installed with IBM® MQ.
AIX
Messages in the language specified by the locale selected on your machine at install time are installed by default.

To find out which language is currently in use, run the locale command.

If this returns a language which is not one of the national languages provided by IBM MQ, you must select a national language, otherwise you will not get a message catalog installed on your system.

Message catalogs for all languages are installed in MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH/msg/language identifier, where language identifier is one of the identifiers in Table 1.

If you require messages in a different language, perform the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Install the appropriate message catalog (see Choosing what to install ).
  2. To select messages in a different language, ensure the LANG environment variable is set to the identifier for the language you want to install:
    Table 1. Language identifiers
    Identifier Language
    cs_CZ Czech
    de_DE German
    es_ES Spanish
    fr_FR French
    hu_HU Hungarian
    it_IT Italian
    ja_JP Japanese
    ko_KR Korean
    pl_PL Polish
    pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese
    ru_RU Russian
    zh_CN Simplified Chinese
    zh_TW Traditional Chinese

    AIX has some additional message catalogs:

    Table 2. AIX specific language identifiers
    Identifier Language
    Ja_JP Japanese
    Zh_CN Simplified Chinese
    Zh_TW Traditional Chinese