Installing New Languages in SAP

by on 21/01/11 at 2:51 pm

Installing New Languages in SAP

• Make sure an entry for the language key exists in transaction i18N
• Goto Transaction SMLT

• Go to the language for which you want to install extra packages and choose Language ® Import Package.

• Now, enter the path for the language packages. Choose Find Package(s) to search for any available packages in the path you have entered.

• Select one or more language packages with green or yellow lights for import.

• After you have specified a start time and (optional) target server, choose Execute to import the language package(s) you have selected.

• If an action terminates for technical reasons, you can restart it.

-  If you install several languages at one time, there are more chances of language installation terminating

• After importing the languages, you must also import the language data in the Support Packages. To do this, perform the following steps:

- Start transaction SMLT.

- Select a language

- Choose Language ® Special Actions ® Import Support Packages.

• Go back to transaction i18N and make sure the profile parameter zcsa/installed_languages has the new language entries.