Language and locale descriptors in Help
The client that finance and operations apps use supports multiple languages and locales. To add Help content for one or more locales to the in-product Help pane, you must make sure that the following conditions are met:
The value of the ms.locale property in each HTML file matches the locale of the content.
For example, the German (Germany) content must have a setting of
ms.locale: de-de.The content on the Help website is in a folder that has the same name as the locale.
For example, the German (Germany) content must be in a folder that is named
de-de.
Languages and descriptors
The following table lists the languages that the finance and operations Help supports.
| Language/locale | Language/region name |
|---|---|
ar |
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
ar-ae |
Arabic (United Arab Emirates) |
cs |
Czech |
da |
Danish |
de |
German (Germany) |
de-at |
German (Austria) |
de-ch |
German (Switzerland) |
en-au |
English (Australia) |
en-ca |
English (Canada) |
en-gb |
English (United Kingdom) |
en-ie |
English (Ireland) |
en-in |
English (India) |
en-my |
English (Malaysia) |
en-nz |
English (New Zealand) |
en-sg |
English (Singapore) |
en-us |
English (US) |
en-za |
English (South Africa) |
es |
Spanish (Spain) |
es-mx |
Spanish (Mexico) |
et |
Estonian |
fi |
Finnish |
fr |
French (France) |
fr-be |
French (Belgium) |
fr-ca |
French (Canada) |
fr-ch |
French (Switzerland) |
hu |
Hungarian |
is |
Icelandic |
it |
Italian |
it-ch |
Italian (Switzerland) |
ja |
Japanese |
lt |
Lithuanian |
lv |
Latvian |
nb-no |
Norwegian Bokmål |
nl |
Dutch (Netherlands) |
nl-be |
Dutch (Belgium) |
pl |
Polish |
pt-br |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
ru |
Russian |
sv |
Swedish |
th |
Thai |
tr |
Turkish |
zh-hans |
Chinese |
Change locales
Microsoft provides a sample tool, HtmlLocaleChanger, that can update your HTML files by setting a new value for the ms.locale property. For example, you have HTML files for German (Germany), and you want to make the same content available in German (Austria). In this case, you can run the tool to change the setting from ms.locale: de-de to ms.locale:de-at.
Here's the syntax for running HtmlLocaleChanger.exe.
HtmlLocaleChanger.exe --h <path> --l <locale> --v <true|false>
The following table explains the parameters.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| h | Specify the path of the HTML files to process. |
| l | Specify the new locale for the HTML files. |
| v | Set this parameter to true to turn on verbose logging. Otherwise, set it to false. |
Example
The following example changes the locale to de-atand switches on verbose logging.
HtmlLocaleChanger.exe --h D:\D365-Operations\d365F-O\supply-chain\de --l de-at --v