Contents
Introduction
Installing Message Language Sets
Activating Message Language Sets
Introduction
When a user authors or visits a Web site that resides on a UNIX-based Web server running the FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 from Microsoft, the Web server may generate messages for the user. Such messages may appear when users make server requests that cannot be completed, when authentication errors occur, and when form-validation messages are displayed to site visitors. Collectively, this information is referred to as the "message set" for a Web server. By default, the UNIX-based FrontPage Server Extensions contain only the English version of the message set. If, however, a German-speaking visitor visits or authors a Web site running only the English message set, all notifications from the server would be in English, which may be of little or no value to that user.
Server administrators can configure their Web servers to provide the appropriate message language sets when the server is accessed by language-specific client applications such as the browser or FrontPage. Multiple language sets may be installed on a single server.
Installing Message Language Sets
To display the proper message language sets, server administrators must install the appropriate language package on their Web servers by completing the following steps. The German message set is used as an example.
- Copy the fp_install_intl.sh script file to the /usr/local directory.
- Copy the language tar file to the /usr/local directory.
- Use fp_install_intl.sh to install the language package.
- Execute ./fp_install_intl.sh
- When asked "Are you satisfied with the backup of the system?" answer "Yes"
- When asked "What language international package would you like to install?" enter the three-letter language code shown in the language table; for example, enter "ger" for German
- The script displays "....Uncompressing/Untarring file /usr/local/fp50_ger_tar.Z"
- When the script finishes, it displays "Installation completed! Exiting..."
- Repeat steps 3 through 5 for each language that you need to install on the Web server.
Languages
The installation package includes the following international languages:
- 1025 Arabic
- 1028 Chinese (Traditional)
- 1031 German
- 1033 English
- 1036 French
- 1037 Hebrew
- 1040 Italian
- 1041 Japanese
- 1042 Korean
- 1043 Dutch
- 1046 Brazilian
- 1053 Swedish
- 1054 Thai
- 2052 Chinese (Simplified)
- 3076 Chinese, Hong Kong
- 3082 Spanish
Activating Message Language Sets
After installing the message language files, you can use FrontPage to activate a particular language for server messages on a per-Web basis. To do this, complete the following steps:
- Using FrontPage, open a Web site from which you want to set a specific server message language.
- From the Tools menu, click Web Settings, and then click the Language tab.
- For FrontPage 2000 and FrontPage 2002, select the language to use for error messages and HTML messages in the Server message language box. For FrontPage 98, select the language to use for error messages and HTML messages in the default Web language box.
To view the Administration Pages or Help for a Web site in a particular language, complete the following steps:
- Browse to the Web site or global administration pages for one of the Web sites on the server on which the language package is installed.
- In Internet Explorer, click Tools, click Internet Options, and click the Languages button. Click Add to add a language, such as German. After adding a language, use the Move button to move the language to the top of the list. Click OK.
- Refresh the page to view the Administration pages in the language you selected.
Server administrators responsible for Web servers on the Internet or in multinational organizations should seriously consider installing all of the message language sets for non-English-speaking audiences. With little effort, Web servers running the FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 can be configured to work with many languages.
