Installed language pack defines Billing localization parameters: date, time and currency formats, negative sums color, decimal point symbol and the like.
Language packs are used in Billing for the following purposes:
- Selecting Billing control panel interface language.
- Specifying account language. Customers will receive notifications based on templates that have the same language assigned.
- Assigning a notification template to specific language pack. Provider may create notification templates for different languages. Notification language depends on the language specified for account.
A Billing language pack is a bundle of control panels localization and a language description. A localization represents a text file that lists interface key words and their translations.
A general language pack represents a folder with the following files:
locale.<language_code>– Billing interface localization dictionary. We strongly recommend that you use two-character language code as file extension. This extension is used register language in Billing interface and internal processes. For example,fr– French,es– Spanish and the like.-
locale-info.<language_code>– a language description. The file contents is the following:english <language_name_in_English> native <native_language_name> – this name will be displayed in the list of languages on the Billing login screen.
Note: Files extensions (language codes) must be the same.
For example German language pack contains the following files:
locale.de-
locale-info.defile contains the following entries:english German native Deutsch