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Enabling Languages on Your System
In order to properly manage translations, openDCIM utilizes the standard open source utility called Gettext. A dependency of Gettext is that the locale for the language that you wish to support must be installed on your server. This is basically a mapping of the character sets so that extended characters may be displayed properly.
See what locales are currently installed on your system:
$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_AG en_AG.utf8 en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_IN.utf8 en_NG en_NG.utf8 en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZM en_ZM.utf8 en_ZW.utf8 POSIX
Above is the output on an Ubuntu system installed for English. You'll noticed that other than POSIX and C, only en_ prefix locales are present.
If you wish to install another locale, such as Traditional Spanish (es_ES), you would do the following:
$ sudo local-gen es_ES.utf8
The postfix of .utf8 is important as that is the character encoding we use for internationalization. If you simply installed the es_ES locale then some characters may not display correctly.