Language Selection

Language Selection

9600 Series IP Telephones are factory-set to display information in the English language. As of Release 1.1, all software downloads include language files for 13 additional languages. Software Release 1.2 added support for a large font version of English only and Release 1.5 added Arabic as an additional language. Administrators can specify from one to four languages per telephone to replace English. End users can then select which of those languages they want their telephone to display.

All downloadable language files contain all the information needed for the telephone to present the language as part of the user interface.

There are no dependencies between the languages available from the software download and the actual character input method. If a character input method is not supported, ASCII is used instead. Acceptable input methods are as follows:


ASCII	Croatian, Slovenian
Latin-1	Czech, Slovak
German	Estonian
French	Hungarian
Italian	Latvian
Spanish	Lithuanian
Portuguese	Polish
Russian	Romanian
Albanian, Azeri, Turkish	Arabic

Use the configuration file and these parameters to customize the settings for up to four languages:

LANGxFILE - The name of a selected language file, for example, "French". In addition to providing the language name as this value, replace the "x" in this parameter with a "1", "2", "3", or "4" to indicate which of four languages you are specifying. For example, to indicate German and French are the available languages, the setting is: LANG1FILE=mlf_german.txt and LANG2FILE=mlf_french.txt.
LANG0STAT - Allows the user to select the built-in English language when other languages are downloaded. If LANG0STAT is "0" and at least one language is downloaded, the user cannot select the built-in English language. If LANG0STAT is "1" the user can select the built-in English language text strings.
LANGSYS - The file name of the system default language file, if any.
LANGLARGEFONT - The name of the language file you want available for a "large font" display, currently only "English."

As of Release 1.2, a large text font is available for user selection on all 9600 Series IP Telephones but the 9610. The larger text font can only be activated if a language file for this font is available. The Text Size option is presented to the telephone user if and only if the system value LANGLARGEFONT is not null and if a language file for that value is being used as the current user interface language. If neither condition is met, the Text Size option is not presented to the user.

For example, if the language in use is English, and a large text font language file for English is specified in LANGLARGEFONT and available, the Text Size option is presented on the Screen and Sounds Options screen.

For more information, see 9600 Series IP Telephone Customizable System Parameters. To view multiple language strings, see the MLS local procedure in the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 Series IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide. To download a language file or review pertinent information, go to http://support.avaya.com/unicode.

NOTE: Specifying a language other than English in the configuration file has no impact on Avaya Communication Manager settings, values, or text strings.