In Java based SAS^® clients, the default language displayed for the user interface is determined by the operating system locale settings of the individual client machine. You can override this setting by adding two arguments to the application-name.ini file.

Example: The locale setting on your client machine is English, US, but you want the SAS client interface to be displayed in French. You would modify the application-name.ini file as follows:

1. Access the application-name.ini file on your client machine. The application-name.ini file is typically located here on each client machine:


C:\Program Files\SASHome\Application Name\Version


2. Open the application-name.ini file using a standard text editor, such as Notepad, WordPad, or TextPad. Near the middle of this file, you should see entries similar to the following:
JavaArgs_1=-Xmx1024m JavaArgs_2=-XX:MaxPermSize=128m JavaArgs_3=-Djava.security.policy="Config\security\java.policy" JavaArgs_4=-Djava.security.auth.login.config="Config\security\login.config" JavaArgs_5=-Dcache.auth.policy=true JavaArgs_6=-Dsas.app.splash.path=splash.gif JavaArgs_7=-Dlog4j.configuration="file:\C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASManagementConsole\9.4\log4j.properties" JavaArgs_8=-Dsas.services.information.types.path="C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASPlatformObjectFramework\9.4\plugins" JavaArgs_9=-Dsas.deployment.agent.client.config="${home_deployagtclt}\deployagtclt.properties" JavaArgs_10=-Djava.system.class.loader=com.sas.app.AppClassLoader JavaArgs_11=-Dsas.ext.config="<SASHOME>\sas.java.ext.config" JavaArgs_12=-Dsas.app.launch.config=picklist JavaArgs_13=-Dsas.app.repository.path="<VJRHOME>\eclipse" JavaArgs_14=-Dsas.app.class.path=.;"C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASManagementConsole\9.4\build" JavaArgs_15=-Dsas.app.launch.picklist=picklist;"help\primary.picklist" JavaArgs_16=
3. To modify the language displayed in your Java based SAS client, add the following argument to the end of these entries:
JavaArgs_##=-Duser.language=xx JavaArgs_##=-Duser.country=yy

In the example above, xx represents the 2-character language code, yy represents the 2-character country code, and ## is a continuation of the line numbering of the lines above. If the last JavaArgs statement is blank (as in the example shown in Step 2), start by using that line.

Example: The operating system locale setting on your client machine is set to English, US, but you would like the Java based SAS client interface to be displayed in French. You would add the following entries:

Then, the modified JavaArgs block would look similar to this:

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