Localization

In AMT-COBOL it is possible to change the language of messages and texts used in AMT-COBOL to your local language based on your browser preference.

Within the product, Avanade uses English as the default language, but we can imagine that you wish to switch this to your own local language.

For the Control Center and the Application Center you can find localization files which allow you to translate the standard English messages into any local language with the help of a simple xml file.

The following files are available:

These files can be opened and edited with a plain text editor like NotePad.

Editing the localization files

If you open the AmtLocalisation.xml file you will find further explanation on how to use this functionality at the top of the file, inside the <remarks> section.
In the files you will find the default language, namely English, starting with <language name=”English”> this sections ends with the closing tags "</language>".

After that you can put any other language in by using new opening tags <language name=”AnyOtherLanguage”>. In between these tags you can then enter the message in your language.

Each message tag consists of a message id and a value, as shown in this example:  

Example from AmtLocalisation.xml:              <msg id="17001" value="Message" />

The language used in your environment is then decided by the local language of the browser. If the browser default language is set to Spanish, the localization file will be checked for the Spanish language, if not found it will use the default English language.