In any business, the need may arise to use different languages. For example, a restaurant’s chef might speak only French, while other staff members speak English and serve customers who come from all over the world and speak a wide variety of languages. Entering data, creating documents, and receiving messages in employees’ native languages facilitates their work, just as having a menu in a language understood by clients helps you to provide a faster and better service.

Tillypad XL allows for data input and output in several different languages. You can utilise language packs to create a list of languages that can be used in the system. A language pack is a list of languages with a specified preference order.

Language packs determine which languages you can use to enter or view text attributes in the system. Data input in different languages can be performed in windows with multilingual entry fields. A multilingual field allows you to simultaneously save data in multiple languages. The number of available entry options depends on the number of languages specified in the language pack.

String parameter values can be entered and saved in a single field in any languages within the current language pack. For example, the name of a dish can be entered in English, French, and Russian if all of these languages are included in the current language pack.

If data are entered in multiple languages, they will be displayed in the language that has the lowest sequence index in the language pack. If data are not entered in any of the language pack languages, the neutral language of the system is used (Russian).

The languages you can add to a language pack come from a preset list of languages defined by the developers.

You can specify language packs for employees, regular customers, personal profiles, and devices, as well as in the system settings of a segment.

Which language is selected for use from the language pack is determined when the program starts. If two or more languages have the lowest index, the program will randomly choose one of them.

Language packs are managed in the Language packs directory.