Changing the language in BlueZone

In a standard installation, you select a language at the beginning of the process. The BlueZone installation program unzips common.cab, which contains the language DLLs, and the selected language file is renamed to bzstring.dll. The information contained in bzstring.dll is used to populate the BlueZone menus and dialogs in the selected language.

To switch to a different language without the language.ini file, you must uninstall and reinstall BlueZone with the new language selected. Configuring the language.ini file removes the need to uninstall and reinstall BlueZone with the new language. You can easily switch between two or more BlueZone supported languages.

Note: Changing the language with the language.ini file does not change the keyboard layout; it only affects the menus and dialogs. If you want to change the keyboard layout to support a specific language, you must modify the Keyboard Type option in the Keyboard Options dialog. For more information, refer to the “Keyboard Options dialog” topic in the BlueZone Display and Printer User's Guide.

To change the language in the BlueZone menus and dialogs:

Open the BlueZone Desktop installation source directory.
Open the language.ini file in a text editor.
In the [Language] section, locate the ;Language=English entry.
Delete the semicolon at the beginning of the entry.
Change English to the new language. The valid language values are:
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Japanese
For example,
```
[Language]
Language=French
```
Save the language.ini file in the \Config folder of the BlueZone working directory. For example, C:\Users\username\Documents\BlueZone\Config.
Open to the BlueZone Desktop installation source directory and open the common.cab file.
Extract english.dll and the other necessary language .dll file, for example french.dll, to the BlueZone installation directory.
If you accept the default locations during installation, the installation directory is C:\Program Files\BlueZone\6.2.

When BlueZone starts, it loads the language .dll file that is specified in the language.ini file.