# Language

FIDES Lab is in English language by default, but if you download resource bundle for other language from the community or created your own translation, you can use another language.

## Translating FIDES Lab

In the config folder, there are 3 *.properties files

The 3 of them contains one line per translation. A line contains a keyword followed by = followed by the english translation. If you want to add a language, you must copy the 3 files and modify the name replacing “en” by the 2-letter-ISO-639 code (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes if you don't know your code).

Here is an example for a French translation:

Obviously, you will have to change the translation of each key. You may sometime find html code, please DO NOT remove it (translate the text inside) like this :

## Choosing language

Once translation is finished, you need to modify the fides.ini file to put the new language code :

    LOCALE=FR

Then start the software as usual (Introduction section)