LANGUAGE

Scilab Variable
Last update : 25/04/2007

LANGUAGE - Variable defining the language

### Description

The global variable `LANGUAGE` is a string. It defines the language to use for the on-line help and various menus. At the present time, the values of `LANGUAGE` can be `"eng"` for English, which is the default, or `"fr"` for French.

This variable is defined in the startup file `scilab.star` . It can be changed there.

When launching Scilab, you can also give the value of language as an argument: `scilab -l <language>` for Unix and `runscilab.exe -l <language>` for Windows.