Option Language_Key=code
option lk=engl
The Language_Key option tells MAIL8 to issue diagnostic messages in a particular language. The argument value that follows Language_Key= is a code of three to five letters indicating a language. The default code is "engl", indicating English.
The current implementation recognizes the following language keys:
engl -- English
fran -- French
frnx -- French with terminal that shows
accented characters (conforming
with ISO 646, French Version,
NF Z 62010-1982 or NF Z 62010-1973).
Sites may attempt to create messages in different languages. To do so, the site administrator should first examine the files under the catalog
mail8/mb1.3/lang.data
These files have names that end in ".engl". Someone knowledgeable should create a parallel set of files whose names end in a different code. The contents of these files should be exactly the same as the ".engl" files, but with English message texts translated to the desired language.
For example, if a site wants to support Spanish, it might create a set of files whose names end in ".spa" and whose contents are Spanish equivalents of the English diagnostic messages. Users can then specify
option language_key=spa
to get messages in Spanish instead of English.
If you specify a code that does not have an appropriate set of files under the lang.data catalog, MAIL8 uses English as its default. You can also reset your code to English with
option langkey=
(i.e. no value after the "=" sign).
When you change your language key, some of MAIL8's diagnostics change to your desired language but others do not. The reason for this is that some diagnostics are set up at the beginning of a MAIL8 session and their language cannot be changed partway through the session. If you quit MAIL8 and start again, you will find that all of MAIL8's diagnostics have changed to your desired language.
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