1.5 Multilingualism

The Goobi viewer Core is available in German, English, Spanish, French and Arabic. If available, the interface is automatically displayed in the language that the browser has defined as the default language. Language support is independent of whether a language switch is also offered in the interface.

Which languages are also available in the instance is configured in the faces-config.xml of the respective theme.

Here is an example of the file from the Goobi viewer theme boilerplate:

faces-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config 
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
	version="2.0">
	<application>
		<locale-config>
			<default-locale>de</default-locale>
			<supported-locale>en</supported-locale>			
			<supported-locale>de</supported-locale>			
			<supported-locale>es</supported-locale>			
		</locale-config>
	</application>
</faces-config>

The default-locale defines the language that should be displayed if the browser language does not appear in the list of supported-locale.

The supported-locale list specifies which languages should be available. The supported-locale list also defines the list of language tabs in the CMS backend. For example, to allow only the German language, simply remove the entries for en and es from the supported-locale in the theme.

See in this context also chapter 1.19.9.