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Depending on the country, it may be necessary to adjust the shop’s language and character set.
  • The language setting determines the language in which all texts in the shop are displayed.
  • The character set setting determines the encoding of the HTML pages and HTML emails generated by the shop.
  • The date format determines the order in which day, month, and year are listed within a date specification.
All three settings are located in the <Basic> section of the shop configuration shop.config.

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Set the language

You set the language in the shop configuration shop.config in the <Basic> section under the parameter ShopLanguage. A three-letter ISO code 3166-1 alpha 3 is expected. Example: The shop language is to be German.

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Set the character set

You set the character set in the shop configuration shop.config in the <Basic> section under the parameter Charset. An ISO character set is expected, for example Charset = ISO 8859-15. Example: The shop language is German. For this reason, the character set ISO 8859-1 must be entered.
Specifying UTF-8 as the character set instead of an ISO character set is not permitted due to technical dependencies. Some third-party providers you may be connected to, and their systems in Germany and many other countries around the world, do not yet fully support UTF-8. This can affect, for example, payment, credit checks, search service providers, ERP systems, and logistics providers.Selecting the correct ISO character set is very simple. If the texts of the shop interface and the product data have to be localized for a particular country or language, all you need to do is provide the ISO character set appropriate for that language for this shop.

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Set the date format

You determine the format for order and delivery dates displayed in the shop in the shop configuration shop.config in the <Basic> section with the parameter DateFormat. The byte order is expected as a value. The default is LittleEndian. This produces date values in the format Day.Month.Year. Example: The date is to be displayed as DD.MM.YYYY.
Reference: Basic section