Creating and Validating a New Locale Properties File

Create a locale properties file as the default locale.

Prerequisites

You must have an existing Hybrid App package before you create the locale properties file.

Task

When you create a new locale, keep in mind:

When you specify a country for the language, the basic language locale must also be available. For example, if you create a locale and specify English as the language, then there must also be a locale for English (the basic language).
If you create a locale that specifies language, country, and variant, the locale for the basic language and the locale for the basic language and the country must be available. For example, if you create a locale and specify English as the language, United States as the country, and WIN as the variant, then English (United States) and English locales must also be available.

In WorkSpace Navigator, double-click the Hybrid App.xbw file to open the Hybrid App Designer.
Click the Flow Design tab.
Right-click in a blank area on the Flow Design page, and select Show Properties View.
In the Properties view, on the left, click the Localization tab.
In the right pane, click New.

Select or enter the information for the new locale, select Automatically create default locale, and click Finish.

Option	Description
Language	Select the language.
Country	Select the country.
Variant	Enter the variant, which is the vendor or browser-specific code. For example, enter `WIN` for Windows, `MAC` for Macintosh and `POSIX` for POSIX. If there are two variants, separate them with an underscore, and put the most important one first. For example, a Traditional Spanish collation might construct a locale with parameters for language, country, and variant as: `es`, `ES`, `Traditional_WIN`.
Overwrite existing file	Overwrite an existing localization file.
Automatically create default locale	Automatically create the default locale properties file. For example, if you specify the language as `English` and the country as `United States` for a device application called `test`, then both test_en_uS.properties and test.properties files are created.

For example:

Language – select French.
Country – select France.
Variant – enter a value to make this locale file unique from others, for example, WM for Windows Mobile.

New Locale wizard

This locale file is now the default locale file, and will be used when the regional setting of the device does not match that of any supplied locale file.

In the Properties view, in the Localization page, select the file to validate and click Validate.

The properties file is scanned and if there are any errors, a dialog appears. Click Yes to correct the errors automatically; click No to see the errors in the Problems view.