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APPENDIX
C
Internationalization
This appendix describes setting the language displayed in the J2ME Wireless
Toolkit and the localization setting of the emulation environment.
C.1 Locale Setting
A locale is a geographic or political region or community that shares the same
language, customs, or cultural conventions. In software, a locale is represented by a
collection of files, data, and code, which contains the information necessary to
adapt software to a specific location.
Some software uses a locale to tailor information for users, such as:
■ Messages displayed to the user
■ Fonts used or other writing-specific information
By default, all KToolbar strings, that is, the entire User Interface (UI), are displayed
in the language of the supported platform’s locale.
For example, Japanese characters can be displayed in KToolbar running on a
Japanese Windows machine, provided that the correct localized J2ME Wireless
Toolkit has been downloaded and installed.
You can set the wtk.locale property to have the KToolbar displayed in a
specified locale’s language. For example, you can have the toolkit running on a
Japanese machine but still have the KToolbar display shown in English by setting
the locale property to
en-US , and making sure that the proper supplement has
been downloaded and installed over the J2ME Wireless Toolkit. The wtk.locale
property should be placed in the
{toolkit}
\wtklib\ {platform} \ktools.properties file, where {platform} is the
name of the underlying platform ( Windows or Linux , for example).