Restricting Portal Languages

Hello,
we would like to use only german and english as portal languages. Furthermore we have some users from ldap that don't have a language attribute. The users are from countries like finland and the browsers settings determine a finish portal. But we would like them to see an english portal.
We tried the language setting for logon page but browser language is still taken.
Does anyone have an idea how this can be solved ?
Kind Regards
Joachim Bertram

Hi,
Check this to know, where to find locale_list_service:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b2/77284a96264e9183161b7e8718dfa8/frameset.htm
Note 624929 still applies for EP 7.0, so this way you limit languages user can select in his profile.
But this still does not solve your problem, when the browser languages is different from german and english.
Check this how the Lookup of Resource Bundle happens:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/42/938297a5061d69e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm
The only way to restrict that your portal shows only german and english is by having these languages set in user profiles. If not you will have to remove the Resource bundle properties files for other languages in all portal applications, which is really cumbersome.
So my advice is to apply Note 624929 and removes all languages except german and english, set german and english in all user profiles.
Regards,
Praveen Gudapati

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