# Opening FileWave Central (Admin) in a Specific Language (macOS)

## What

FileWave Admin will automatically use the language, if supported, set on the workstation at installation (default English). It is however possible to run FileWave Admin in a different language, as shown below, through an Apple Shortcut Menu Bar item.

## When/Why

FileWave Central (Admin) doesn’t currently have the option to change Language preference in the application itself. Only some languages are supported with this method.

## How

The following command may be used to both open and specify a chosen language at runtime.

```
/Applications/FileWave/FileWave\ Admin.app/Contents/MacOS/FileWave\ Admin --lang en_US &
```

<table id="bkmrk-language-locale-code" style="width: 108.452%; height: 357.563px;"><thead><tr style="background-color: rgb(251, 238, 184); height: 29.7969px;"><th style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Language**

</th><th style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">**Locale Code**

</th><th style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">**Notes**

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**English (US)**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">en\_US

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">Use for American English.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**German**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">de\_DE

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">Standard locale for German in Germany.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**French**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">fr\_FR

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">Standard locale for French in France.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Korean**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">ko\_KR

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">Korean for South Korea.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Japanese**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">ja\_JP

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">Japanese for Japan.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Chinese (Simplified)**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">zh\_CN

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">For Mainland China.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Chinese (Traditional)**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">zh\_TW

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;">For Taiwan.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Dutch**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">nl\_NL

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;"><span class="s1">**New in FileWave 16.1+**</span> — Dutch for Netherlands.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Turkish**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">tr\_TR

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;"><span class="s1">**New in FileWave 16.1+**</span> — Turkish for Turkey.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Swedish**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">sv\_SE

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;"><span class="s1">**New in FileWave 16.1+**</span> — Swedish for Sweden.

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 26.4274%; height: 29.7969px;">**Spanish (International)**

</td><td style="width: 15.1713%; height: 29.7969px;">es\_ES

</td><td style="width: 58.4013%; height: 29.7969px;"><span class="s1">**New in FileWave 16.1+**</span> — Spanish for Spain (Castilian).

</td></tr></tbody></table>