Installation guide

Localization Overview
Chapter 5: Internationalization and Localization 45
Rule of Localization Limits
The Rule of Localization Limits states that not everything in CA Spectrum is localized to a
non-English language. Localization is limited because CA Spectrum manages diverse
network devices that generally support only English/ASCII. In addition, the CA Spectrum
core database (ModelType Catalog) is not localized. Therefore, non-English users will
see English in various places in CA Spectrum.
More information
Translation Scope (see page 47)
Operating System Locale
CA Spectrum supports the following locales:
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English (ISO code en_US)
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Japanese (ISO code ja_JP)
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Traditional Chinese (ISO code zh_TW)
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Simplified Chinese (ISO code zh_CN)
The "language packs" that are provided for each of these languages let CA Spectrum
display completely in those languages. CA Spectrum uses the language for the default
locale to present values for package.properties, CsEvFormat, CsPCause, and
EventTables.
CA Spectrum also supports any UTF-8 characters, including character encodings such as
French, German, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and more. In sum, CA Spectrum has been
internationalized so that any UTF-8 characters can be used. You can enter data in these
encodings, and CA Spectrum can display that data. However, languages for which
language packs are not provided lack localized files for package.property, CsEvFormat,
CsPCause and EventTable support. The affected user-interface elements are displayed in
English.
Setting the system locale to the proper ISO code lets CA Spectrum recognize the
language support files for the language. English is used when the system locale is set to
an unsupported value, such as de_DE (German). German can still be used in CA
Spectrum. However, because no German language pack is available for CA Spectrum,
only the German entered by the user is displayed as German.