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This article explains how to set the map interface language and how to display more language information

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Setting the map interface language

To set the language, use the following:

nokia.maps.packages.load("language", "de-DE");

For the language, define it in format of ISO3166-1 alpha-2 country code, e.g. en-US, de-DE and so on.

Getting more language information

When you want to display more information, use the class nokia.maps.language.Info.

It has a method called getDefinition (code, [definitions]) : Object.

This will retrieve the language meta data for a given LCID. The look up will be done in two steps: First the full LCID (ISO-639-1 AND ISO-3166-1 alpha-2) will be matched. If the full LCID cannot be found the more general form (ISO-639-1 only) will be matched.

An example of using the getDefinition() method:

     mylanguage = nokia.maps.language.Info;

Would return:

Object { definitions={...}, translations={...}, more...}

then...

   mylanguage.getDefinition("de-DE");

would return e.g:

Object { key="de", iso639_1="de", more...}

Summary

Please check out the chapter http://api.maps.nokia.com/2.1.0/apireference/symbols/nokia.maps.language.html for more information on languages.