Configuring Mobile Search language support

When a mobile device requests a connection, Mobile Search tries to match the language that the device requests to one of the languages it supports. If Mobile Search recognizes the language, the client features appear in that language in the Web browser on the mobile device. If Mobile Search does not recognize the language or no language request is sent, the client features appear in the default language.

Most mobile devices send a language request. Mobile Search usually recognizes the request, so no special configuration is required. If there is a problem, you can do one or both of the following:

View the language request string that the mobile device sends, and change the language configuration on the mobile device if necessary.

See Unexpected language on mobile device.
Change the Mobile Search default language in the configuration file Web.Config.

Table: Default language values shows the possible default language values and the languages they represent.

Table: Default language values

Value	Language
en (the default)	English
de	German
es	Spanish
fr	French
it	Italian
da	Danish
sv	Swedish
nl	Dutch
pl	Polish
ru	Russian
ko	Korean
ja	Japanese
zh-cn	Simplified Chinese
zh-tw	Traditional Chinese

If you enter any other value, a message is added to the event log and the default (en) is used.

To configure the default language

In Web.Config, find the <appSettings> section.
In the <appSettings> section, find the following line:

<add key="Language" value="default_language_value"></add>
Replace the current default language value with the value you require. This value is case-sensitive.
Save and close Web.Config.