I am trying to install Notes Client 7.02 (The French version) on a French Windows 2003 server. The installation is in all French, but when I run the program, everything is in English, exept for the Help file and the Welcome page. The 'wizard" to point to your mail file is in English, and after logging in (even with a French mail file), the menu shows “File Edit View”, and the inbox shows “New Meno, Reply” etc.
Anyone any ideas???
Subject: Notes and French Language
First off, Windows Server 2003 is not a supported operating system for the Notes client, which might or might not play a role here. Next, if you are absolutely sure, that the installer is the right one (one would assume it is, if the whole setup was in french) check the user preferences.
File → Preferences → User preferences → International
Right at the bottom of the dialog, there should be a combobox to switch between English and the native language. It’s been like this since Notes 6 (the most underrated release ever), but it usually defaults to the installer language. But maybe … on Windows Server 2003 …
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
Or in the Notes.ini, add the line Userinterface=fr
Merci,
JYR
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
Thank you so much for your help.
I added the line to the notes.ini and now I get the following error:
The language specified for the User Interface is not found in your notes\MUI directory (may have been uninstalled); peroceeding with the default language.
We re-direct the lotus notes user directory to their H: drive (home drive). The server had the \mui\fr directory on it. Do I have to copy this to the user’s home drive also? If so, on what directory" h:\lotus\notes\data ?
Thanks SOOO much for your help!!!
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
Ahh, data directory on a network drive. That’s unsupported as well. 
Still works everywhere around the planet, but IBM will not support it in any way. The MUI directory should be inside the notes executeable directory, not inside the data directory. If it’s not there, something went terribly wrong with the installation.
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
The mui/fr is in the program directory of notes.
This is still broke 
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
Why do you have to install the client on a Windows 2003 Server anyway? Or are we talking about a Citrix installation here?
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
Thats correct.
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
I don’t have practical experience running Notes on Citrix/Terminal Server, but did you check, if your environment complies with IBM’s support policy?
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=475&uid=swg21098489
Also, given, that the failure might still be related to an incomplete installation, you could give this trick a go:
http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=137&threadID=95223&tstart=60
While it is not exactly true, that Notes doesn’t create any registry settings (as the poster assumes), it still sounds like an option to me.
Subject: RE: Notes and French Language
Right, the preferences dialog is just the GUI to add this setting.