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Customized Languages

OpenJUMP Nightly Build has been translated in the following languages:

• Simplified Chinese
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Portuguese (Brasilian)
• Spanish

Depending the Core Java language OpenJUMP can show the GUI in one of the former languages.
If your java machine language is different than the formers, OpenJUMP will probabily shows the menus in English.
Depending the version of OpenJUMP you can change the menu language using the following procedures:

OpenJUMP ver. 1.2F or later

To change OpenJUMP GUI to one of the former languages:

1. Open the startup script of OpenJUMP with a text editor (e.g. Notepad for Windows. It is located in OpenJUMP/BIN directory. Those are the startup files depending the Operative System:
   • openJUMP.bat for Windows XP
   • openjump-unix.sh or openjump.sh for Linux/Unix
   • openjump.sh for Mac
2. Startup script is basically a simple text file.
   Find the line:

start javaw -cp ”CLASSPATH” JAVA_OPTS com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.JUMPWorkbench JUMP_OPTS

Between JAVA_OPTS and com.vividsolutions add one of these following lines depending the language

• -Duser.language=zh_CN for Simplified Chinese
• -Duser.language=En for English
• -Duser.language=Fi for Finnish
• -Duser.language=Fr for French
• -Duser.language=De for German
• -Duser.language=IT for Italian
• -Duser.language=pt_BR for Portuguese (ver. Brasilian)
• -Duser.language=Es for Spanish

Some sample:
for Spanish: start javaw -Dlog4j ….CLASSPATH -Duser.language=Es com.vividsolutions…
for Fench it will be start javaw -Dlog4j ….CLASSPATH -Duser.language=Fr com.vividsolutions…

1. Save the Startup script.
2. Run OpenJUMP to see the new language menus.

Warning: make a copy of the original startup script before doing any changes.

OpenJUMP since ver. 1.2B

Find the string:

start javaw -Dlog4j.configuration=file:./log4j.xml -Xms256M -Xmx256M -cp CLASSPATH com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.JUMPWorkbench -properties workbench-properties.xml -plug-in-directory LIB/ext

and add the -Duser.language=... option before com.vividsolutions.. text

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