thank you for the hint!
But is there meanwhile no other way to change the APEX IDE language? Always switching between English (best for APEX Development) and German (for typical web browsing) is a little bit annoying.
(Extras – Internet Options – Settings – Language)
Or do you know a faster shortcut to accomplish this?

Regards
Dietmar

My application has been migrated to Apex 3.1 and I installed the translations in Spanish (language=”es”). When I try to enter the application (in page: http://cdelafue-es:7777/pls/htmldb) I get the error “ERR-1016 Application “4550″ Page “11″ not found (requested language=”es”) “.

Does anyone know the issue?

Thanks.

the German translation is probably ok if you never used the English one before and probably make sens. But if you are used the English terms, then you sometimes have to think twice to identify the proper value. For example the item types

FSP_LANGUAGE_PREFERENCE is probably the best to define the application language. BTW, I just created an enhancement request on the OTN forum so that the APEX Builder IDE is also using it.

Greetings
Patrick

Technical translations are usually a pain in the ass. It’s now 18 years or so since i made my first technical translation back in 1989, it was a translation of the Borland Turbo C 3.0 Reference Guide and it was followed shortly by the Turbo Pascal User’s Guide.
At that time it was still possible to find awful italian translations in bookstores that made good books simply unreadable, just because the translator hadn’t a clue as to what the meaning of a sentence really was. Luckily the situation has improved over the years.

But to come back to Apex translations, i found that, in general, Oracle Apex’s translations are very good, the spanish version of Apex 3.0 for instance is really accurate, but honestly i didn’t try out the german one yet!

At any rate, recently i began to include translated messages at Oraclequirks but i see that 99.99% of the people are submitting searches using english words, regardless of their origin.

As a final note, let me add that although the “derive primary language from browser” setting is very powerful, i prefer the other option of letting the user decide the language he prefers, by looking at the FSP_LANGUAGE_PREFERENCE item. This avoids the annoyance of changing the order of the favourite languages in browser that may impact on the visualization of other sites.

Cheers!
Flavio