Language Settings

Introduction

Mendix is designed to be used by users in multiple languages. The Languages tab of the App Settings allows you to select which languages your app supports.

You can reach this tab in two ways:

1. Select the menu option Language > Language Settings….
2. Open the App{Name} > Settings dialog box from the App Explorer and select the Language tab.

Setting Default Language

There must be a default app language. Select the Default language from the drop-down list. This contains all languages that have been added to your app. Mendix recommends that you do this when you start developing your app.

Setting the default language has two functions:

• It sets the language that is displayed to the end-user if the end-user is not associated with a Language entity, or if the end-user's language is not enabled in the app
• It sets the language that is used if there is no translation of a translatable text in the end-user's language, even if the app has the language enabled

The initial default language is English, United States.

Adding Languages

You can add as many languages as you like from the list of supported languages by clicking Add, selecting the desired language, and clicking OK.

Most languages are added with an empty dictionary, although some translations have already been set up in the Dutch dictionary.

Advanced Language Settings

You can set each language in your app to have additional settings.

Check Completeness

If you select the Check completeness box, you get a warning (or error) message in the Errors pane for every text that has no entry in this language's dictionary.

If this is the default language, the Check completeness box is selected and you cannot clear it.

Custom Date and Time Formatting

You can set a custom format for the following:

• Date format
• Time format
• Date and time format

Type a format string in the relevant box and you see an example of how a date is formatted underneath.

Click Edit… to open a dialog box that provides a full reference for the format string:

The list of supported tokens can be found in Parse and Format Date Function Calls.

List of Supported Languages

The most up-to-date list of supported languages in your version of Studio Pro is the one in the add languages menu.

The list below is provided to enable you to quickly evaluate whether Mendix supports your desired language.

⚠ List of Deprecated Languages

You can find the list of deprecated languages in the table below: