setlanguage

Arguments

language

string made of a two-letter, lower-case, ISO Language Code, optionally followed by an underscore and a two-letter, upper-case, ISO country code), such as: 'fr', 'en', 'en_US', 'ru_RU', 'zh_TW'...

Description

setlanguage(language) changes the language used by Scilab user interface, including help, error messages, for the current execution of Scilab.

setlanguage('') resets the language to the system value.

setlanguage works on all supported operating systems.

Examples

setlanguage('en_US')
getlanguage()
setlanguage('en')
getlanguage()
setlanguage('fr')
getlanguage()
setlanguage('fr_FR')
getlanguage()

See Also

• getlanguage — returns the current language used by Scilab.
• setdefaultlanguage — Permanently changes the language of Scilab's user interface.