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For the understanding of multilingual settings in CMS Kentico it is necessary to comprehend two concepts - User interface culture and Content culture.
User interface culture
The user interface culture represents settings of the CMS Desk administration interface. The Preferred user interface culture can be set for each user in the Site Manager -> Administration -> Users -> General tab. Either set it to (default) or select another preferred UI culture. The default UI culture is set to US English (en-us).
The list of available UI cultures is in Site Manager -> Development -> UI Cultures. Naturally, you can create your own UI culture. Just click on the New UI culture (
) icon. You can for example create a new English (NZ) culture for a site managed from New Zealand.
The default UI culture can be set within web.config file under the section <appSettings>. To set the default UI culture to English (NZ) for instance, add the following key:
<add key=”CMSDefaultUICulture” value=”en-nz” /> |
Now, for the user who has their preferred UI culture set to (default), the UI culture will be English (NZ).
Content culture
The content culture determines the actual culture of the content stored in the Kentico documents. For a multilingual site there are multiple documents for each culture stored under each "node".
The list of all content cultures available in CMS Kentico can be found in Site Manager -> Development -> Cultures. All major cultures are provided in the list.
The default content culture can be set by either of the following ways:
| • | Site Manager -> Sites -> Edit -> Default content culture |
| • | Site Manager -> Settings -> (select site from the drop-down list) -> Web site -> Default culture of the content |
Based on the settings of the user's Preferred content culture in the Site Manager -> Administration -> Users -> General tab the user will either see the content in the default culture - if the setting is to (default) - or in the preferred culture.
It is also possible to set the default culture for the anonymous visitor of the site. You have two ways to set the Default visitor culture:
| • | Site Manager -> Sites -> Edit -> General tab |
| • | Site Manager -> Sites -> Edit -> Domain Aliases -> Edit |
It is either set to (Automatic) in which case the user's browser settings will be used, or it can be set manually to one of the available cultures. The list of the available cultures is stored in Site Manager -> Sites -> Edit -> Cultures tab.
Page url: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/5_0/devguide/index.html?devguide_configuring_ui_and_.htm
