Siemens SIMATIC C7-613 Manual page 66

Integration into the User Program
4.3.2 Creating Foreign-language Texts
Scenarios
The following scenarios are conceivable:
• You configure a project in a different language to your installation.
Example: You have a German configuration interface and want to create a
French project.
• You want to sell a project in several countries, each with their own national
language.
Example: You deliver a machine to Germany, England and France. All the texts
are to be displayed in the respective national language at the operator panel.
• You supply a project to a multilingual country.
Example: You sell a machine to Switzerland. The operator has to be able to
select the languages German, French and Italian.
You should always initially create and test the project in one language only. This
language then serves as the reference language for the translation.
Setting the language
Coding of the character set is dependent on the selected language keyboard.
When editing foreign-language texts you therefore have to set the country-specific
keyboard layout at your programming device/PC in Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Prerequisite is that you have added the desired language at the regional and
language options of the Control Panel.
As an aid during editing you can have the screen keyboard displayed by using
Start > Programs > Accessories > Input Aid.
Be sure to use the codepages listed in the table on Page 4-9 when editing in
foreign languages.
If you use the configuration interface to add a language and select a specific
character set for this language, you have to set a language at your programming
device/PC which is assigned to the selected character set in the Table on Page
4-9.
ASCII Code input by using the ALT key is only possible for the ASCII characters
from 32 to 127 under Windows.
Screen hierarchy
Since the screen hierarchy (refer to Section 4.3.10) is the same for all the
languages, you have to translate all the screens, messages and info texts 1:1. This
means that each object in the source language may have exactly only one object
in the target language.
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