DOORS 9.3

Today I installed DOORS 9.3 on my computer.

And what can I say, it comes up with a German GUI! Very funny!
Nowhere during installation was I asked whether I wanted this silly feature or not.
And nowhere in options or properties I find a switch to put it back to English!

So, to all my fellow German users: has anybody found a way to configure this? to tell the stupid tool that I do not want that?

Thanks in advance for any hints.

Karl
kabr - Fri Oct 08 08:13:26 EDT 2010

Re: DOORS 9.3
Richard_Watson - Fri Oct 08 09:01:22 EDT 2010

Hello Karl,

Simplest method is to set your operating system locale to the language of your choice. DOORS will change to this langue. This is compliant with most windows applications which offer translations.

If you wish to override this then read on.

Please take a look in the directory: C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.3\language\core Here you will find all the available language packs for DOORS.

Set the ICULOCALE evnironment variable for example:

ICULOCALE = fr

"fr" would select French.

If you wish to change the language back to English then set the value to "root"

Hope this helps

Richard

Re: DOORS 9.3
kabr - Fri Oct 08 10:35:16 EDT 2010

Richard_Watson - Fri Oct 08 09:01:22 EDT 2010
Hello Karl,

Simplest method is to set your operating system locale to the language of your choice. DOORS will change to this langue. This is compliant with most windows applications which offer translations.

If you wish to override this then read on.

Please take a look in the directory: C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.3\language\core Here you will find all the available language packs for DOORS.

Set the ICULOCALE evnironment variable for example:

ICULOCALE = fr

"fr" would select French.

If you wish to change the language back to English then set the value to "root"

Hope this helps

Richard

Hello Richard,

thank you very much for your response.
You know, we have been using DOORS for years in an international company. We have built our own dxl toolkit around DOORS, of course in English, and if the main client now appears in German, this is not what you want.
But then I do not want to set my computer to English (the simple solution) because that would make (almost) all applications appear that way.
So a better solution IMO would be if the user could choose via a simple switch (options, properties ...) which language the GUI is supposed to use.

I found the directory you specified, but I cannot find an environment variable called ICULOCALE on my system.
So, please, where would I find/set this environment variable?

best regards
Karl

Re: DOORS 9.3
SystemAdmin - Fri Oct 08 10:52:37 EDT 2010

kabr - Fri Oct 08 10:35:16 EDT 2010
Hello Richard,

thank you very much for your response.
You know, we have been using DOORS for years in an international company. We have built our own dxl toolkit around DOORS, of course in English, and if the main client now appears in German, this is not what you want.
But then I do not want to set my computer to English (the simple solution) because that would make (almost) all applications appear that way.
So a better solution IMO would be if the user could choose via a simple switch (options, properties ...) which language the GUI is supposed to use.

I found the directory you specified, but I cannot find an environment variable called ICULOCALE on my system.
So, please, where would I find/set this environment variable?

best regards
Karl

Go to Windows (XP) control panel, select "System" (or the corresponding in German) and then Advanced tab to "Edit environment variables". The exact steps depend on your Windows version, e.g. for Vista it is different, see more
in http://www.support.tabs3.com/main/R10463.htm - if you have Administrator access to your Desktop you can set the system wide variable, otherwise an user variable, if I remember correctly.

For testing purposes I set the ICULOCALE to be "ru" and started DOORS in Russian. Then setting it to "root" DOORS 9.3 started with an English user interface.

But yes, sorry to be rude again, this kind of settings are handled even in freeware programs by an installation dialog. Hopefully DOORS 9.3.0.1 implements a user selection for this

Re: DOORS 9.3
SystemAdmin - Wed Oct 27 15:56:40 EDT 2010

You have to create the env. variable manually. You can create the variable in the user specific variable, in the system specific and via the registry.

We will implement it via the registry and provid a small script to our user. The user then will be able to select between german and english.

But it would be of course the best, if DOORS provides the language selection build-in.

Kind Regards

Martin

Re: DOORS 9.3
SystemAdmin - Tue Jul 03 06:12:39 EDT 2012

SystemAdmin - Wed Oct 27 15:56:40 EDT 2010
You have to create the env. variable manually. You can create the variable in the user specific variable, in the system specific and via the registry.

We will implement it via the registry and provid a small script to our user. The user then will be able to select between german and english.

But it would be of course the best, if DOORS provides the language selection build-in.

Kind Regards

Martin

The ICULOCALE variable works fine to change the client language, but it does not affect the language of the help. In DOORS 9.2 it was possible to manually rename the .chm files, so that DOORS used the English help file instead of the German help file. But in 9.3 the help system uses a new concept and this seems no longer feasible.

So does anybody know a good method to switch the help language to English while the Windows locale remains German?