Language entry in od.config

The language option is a list of string. Each string is formatted as a locale variable. The locale is simply the language/country combination en + US = en_US

Language in abcdesktop.io oc.user

The language list must match with the oc.user local packages all ready installed.

If the language is not found, the default value is set to en_US

The oc.user.18.04 is built-in with the default language package :

• language-pack-en
• language-pack-fr

apt-get install -y \
    language-pack-en \
    language-pack-fr \
    && locale-gen    \
    && apt-get clean

The full supported language list is set by default

language : [  'af_ZA', 'am_ET', 'an_ES', 'ar_AE', 'ar_BH', 'ar_DZ', 'ar_EG', 'ar_IN', 'ar_IQ', 'ar_JO', 'ar_KW','ar_LB', 'ar_LY', 'ar_MA', 'ar_OM', 'ar_QA', 'ar_SA', 'ar_SD', 'ar_SY', 'ar_TN', 'ar_YE', 'as_IN', 'ast_ES', 'az_AZ', 'be_BY', 'bg_BG', 'bn_BD', 'bn_IN', 'bo_CN', 'bo_IN', 'br_FR', 'bs_BA', 'ca_AD', 'ca_ES', 'ca_FR', 'ca_IT', 'crh_UA', 'cs_CZ', 'cy_GB', 'da_DK', 'de_AT', 'de_BE', 'de_CH', 'de_DE', 'de_LI', 'de_LU', 'dz_BT', 'el_CY', 'el_GR', 'en_AG', 'en_AU', 'en_BW', 'en_CA', 'en_DK', 'en_GB', 'en_HK', 'en_IE', 'en_IN', 'en_NG', 'en_NZ', 'en_PH', 'en_SG', 'en_US', 'en_ZA', 'en_ZM', 'en_ZW', 'eo', 'eo_US', 'es_AR', 'es_BO', 'es_CL', 'es_CO', 'es_CR', 'es_CU', 'es_DO', 'es_EC', 'es_ES', 'es_GT', 'es_HN', 'es_MX', 'es_NI', 'es_PA', 'es_PE', 'es_PR', 'es_PY', 'es_SV', 'es_US', 'es_UY', 'es_VE', 'et_EE', 'eu_ES', 'eu_FR', 'fa_IR', 'fi_FI', 'fr_BE', 'fr_CA', 'fr_CH', 'fr_FR', 'fr_LU', 'ga_IE', 'gd_GB', 'gl_ES', 'gu_IN', 'he_IL', 'hi_IN', 'hr_HR', 'hu_HU', 'id_ID', 'is_IS', 'it_CH', 'it_IT', 'ja_JP', 'ka_GE', 'kk_KZ', 'km_KH', 'kn_IN', 'ko_KR', 'ku_TR', 'lt_LT', 'lv_LV', 'mai_IN', 'mk_MK', 'ml_IN', 'mn_MN', 'mr_IN', 'ms_MY', 'my_MM', 'nb_NO', 'nds_DE', 'nds_NL', 'ne_NP', 'nl_AW', 'nl_BE', 'nl_NL', 'nn_NO', 'oc_FR', 'or_IN', 'pa_IN', 'pa_PK', 'pl_PL', 'pt_BR', 'pt_PT', 'ro_RO', 'ru_RU', 'ru_UA', 'si_LK', 'sk_SK', 'sl_SI', 'sq_AL', 'sq_MK', 'sr_ME', 'sr_RS', 'sv_FI', 'sv_SE', 'ta_IN', 'ta_LK', 'te_IN', 'tg_TJ', 'th_TH', 'tr_CY', 'tr_TR', 'ug_CN', 'uk_UA', 'uz_UZ', 'vi_VN', 'xh_ZA', 'zh_CN', 'zh_HK', 'zh_SG', 'zh_TW' ]

This list must match with the Accept-Language request HTTP header.

Language in abcdesktop.io Applications

abcdesktop.io use the web browser language property to set the application's language. This list must match with the Accept-Language request HTTP header. If the language is not found, the default value is set to en_US.

Hands-on:

Change your web browser language, and run LibreOffice applications. The language setting use the web browser value. During this exercice you can keep the same abcdesktop.io users session.

Set the web browser's default language to en_US :

The launch LibreOffice Writer. The menu is set to en_US LibreOffice Writer use English/US en_US language.

Set the web browser's default language to fr_FR :

You can keep the same abcdesktop.io users session, you do not need to logout.

The launch LibreOffice Writer. The menu is set to fr_FR LibreOffice Writer use French fr_FRlanguage.

Great you have change the language settings of applications running inside an abcdesktop docker container