In the attached patch there is a very simple way to fix the old and known bug that makes impossible to display the English labels when OFBiz is run in an operating system with a system language (different from English) that is available in the OFBiz ui lables property files. The bug is caused by the way the Java localization routines search for localized files and by the fact that in OFBiz we don't maintain the en_EN files, because the labels are in the default properties files (without locale extension).
For example, if I run OFbiz in an operating system with locale it_IT, and I set the language session to en_EN, the labels are shown in Italian because the en_EN files are not found and so (before using the default labels without locale suffix) the Java localization routine retrieves the system langage (it_IT) and searches for property files with the it_IT suffix (and finds them). The proposed solution (that Jacques LeRoux already suggested in an old Jira issue) is to use the -Duser.language=en parameter when invoking the java command (in the OFBiz startup files): in this way the default system locale will be the English one, and everything will work as expected... I don't think it is a bad solution, in fact it is correct to set the JVM in which OFBiz is running to the same locale of the default language files of OFBiz. Can I commit the patch? Jacopo Index: startofbiz.bat =================================================================== --- startofbiz.bat (revision 452073) +++ startofbiz.bat (working copy) @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ REM ##################################################################### ECHO ON -"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms256M -Xmx512M -jar ofbiz.jar > framework\logs\console.log +"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms256M -Xmx512M -Duser.language=en -jar ofbiz.jar > framework\logs\console.log REM This one is for more of a debugging mode -REM "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms256M -Xmx512M -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005 -jar ofbiz.jar > framework\logs\console.log +REM "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms256M -Xmx512M -Duser.language=en -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005 -jar ofbiz.jar > framework\logs\console.log Index: startofbiz.sh =================================================================== --- startofbiz.sh (revision 452073) +++ startofbiz.sh (working copy) @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ #DEBUG="-Dsun.rmi.server.exceptionTrace=true" #RMIIF="-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=<set your IP address here>" MEMIF="-Xms128M -Xmx256M" -VMARGS="$MEMIF $DEBUG $RMIIF $ADMIN" +LANGUAGE="-Duser.language=en" +VMARGS="$MEMIF $DEBUG $RMIIF $ADMIN $LANGUAGE" # Worldpay Config #VMARGS="-Xbootclasspath/p:applications/accounting/lib/cryptix.jar $VMARGS"
