9.8. User Interface Language Translation

EnSight supports displaying the user interface in three different languages: English, Japanese, and Chinese. To fully support the interface translation, you must ensure that the following two controls are set properly:

  1. To change the language displayed in the interface, from the Main Menu, select Window > Language and select either English, Chinese, or Japanese.

  2. Ensure the operating system region/locale is set.

    On Windows, EnSight requires that the system non-unicode locale be set to a language that supports the desired display language. For example, to support Chinese, the non-unicode locale needs to be set to Chinese or UTF-8.

    1. Navigate to the administrative language settings. On Windows 10, you can find it under Settings > Time & Language > Language.

    2. On the Administrative tab, click Change system locale.

    3. Select the appropriate system locale and click OK.


      Note:  The Chinese system locale supports both Chinese and Japanese. The English locale only partially supports Chinese and Japanese.


    4. If you have made the change to the non-unicode locale, restart the Windows system.

If you do not set the operating system region/locale setting, you will see ‘???’ in many places in the user interface (where EnSight is relying upon the system/locale setting), as well as the potential that you cannot read files that use these language character strings.