Customizing the portal language

Hello,
Is there any way to select the portal language ?? I need spanish.....
TIA

Yeah,
It is possible. Check out this URL http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/ias/doc_library/1022doc_otn/portals.102/a90096/cgpost.htm#1016810
It provides a step by step guide to do so.
Thanks,
Anu
I4m working with portal 3.0.
I have not already made any step.... I just want to know whether it4s possible or nto
TIA

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Even after changing the portal language from for ex. English to French, the webdynpro is still displayed in English language.
If this session (portal window) is closed and new portal session is started, then the webdynpro is displayed in French.
Also please note that, for iviews built using Portal HTMLB (like JspDynPages), restarting the session is not necessary.
Any answer/solution/pointers/SAP Notes supplied is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
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Hi,
Refer to SAP Note 947081 about Internationalization
The Blog at /people/bertram.ganz/blog/2007/01/08/the-top-12-hottest-sap-notes-every-web-dynpro-java-developer-must-know talks about this Note.
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Nitin

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Hi,
Instead of passing lang using URL parameter, why dont u give an option to end user to choose login lang
Set logon.locale parameter in UME service... U have to use configtoo..
go to GLOBAL server configurations ... access UME service .. change this parameter to TRUE ...
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Changing the English language to Chinese in portal.

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For a particular system,my customer wants every description and WoCs should be in Chinese in the portal.So,i changed the language for that user in the backend.But when i checked in portal,i found that only WoCs are coming in chinese language and description for particular WoC is coming in English.
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Hi Harshvardhan,
Just to share some of my expereince while working with translation.
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Hi Olivier,
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Of course it is, this is the whole sense of a ResourceBundle...
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html
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