You can start Rule
Designer,
Insight Designer, or Event Designer in a
locale other than the locale of your operating system. If you are using a bidirectional locale, you
can also change the display orientation of Eclipse.
Before you begin
To open the Designers in a specific locale, you must select this locale in IBM®
Installation Manager, when installing
Decision Server.
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By default, the Designers open in the locale of your operating system, or in the locale that you
specified during the installation in IBM
Installation Manager. You can change the locale by adding a
property to the config.ini file.
Procedure
To change the locale of Rule
Designer for example:
- Open <InstallDir>/configuration/config.ini.
<InstallDir> refers to the
installation directory of Operational Decision Manager. However,
if you installed Operational Decision Manager in
an existing Eclipse, the config.ini file is located
in the configuration folder of your Eclipse installation
directory.
- Add the following properties:
osgi.nl=<locale>: to
specify the locale, for example osgi.nl=fr_FR.
(Optional) eclipse.orientation=<orientation>: to change the display orientation of Eclipse, for example eclipse.orientation=ltr.
ltr defines
a left-to-right orientation, and rtl defines a right-to-left
orientation.
For bidirectional locales such as Arabic and Hebrew,
the rule editors are localized and displayed from right to left. However,
the rest of the Rule
Designer interface is not localized. If you start Eclipse in a bidirectional
locale, it is displayed from right to left, but Rule
Designer remains in English. You can use the ltr value to
display Rule
Designer from left to right, and the editors from right to left.
- Save the changes.
Note: You can also use the -nl <locale> argument
in the command line to start Eclipse in a specific locale. For example, -nl fr_FR.
You can also use the -dir <orientation> argument in the command line to start Eclipse with a specific orientation.
For example, -dir ltr.
- Verify that your Eclipse system default encoding is compatible
with the locale that you specified in the osgi.nl property. To select a specific encoding, open the <InstallDir>/eclipse.ini file and add the
following property line at the end of the file: -Dfile.encoding=<encodingName>. The recommended
encoding is UTF-8, as it is compatible with all the supported locales.
Table 1. Supported locales for the Designers| Language |
Locale |
|---|
| Arabic (Egypt) |
ar_EG |
| Chinese (Traditional) |
zh_TW |
| Chinese (Simplified) |
zh_CN |
| Dutch (Netherland) |
nl_NL |
| English (UK) |
en_GB |
| English (US) |
en_US |
| French (France) |
fr_FR |
| German (Germany) |
de_DE |
| Hebrew (Israel) |
iw_IL |
| Italian (Italy) |
it_IT |
| Japanese (Japan) |
ja_JP |
| Korean (South Korea) |
ko_KR |
| Polish (Poland) |
pl_PL |
| Portuguese (Brazil) |
pt_BR |
| Russian (Russia) |
ru_RU |
| Spanish (Spain) |
es_ES |
| Swedish |
sv_SE |