Administering display language optionsPhone display language

Last Updated : Aug 28, 2026 |
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By default, the phone display information is in English. Administrators can specify up to four languagesadditional languages for each phone. Users can then select the display language on the phone.
The user can change the language of the phone and choose one of the following languages:
  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French (Canada)
  • French (France)
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish (Latin America)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Thai
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Turkish
The actual character input method does not depend on the languages available from the software download. If the phone does not support a character input method, use ASCII.
Note:
Avaya J129 IP Phone does not support Arabic, Thai, and Traditional Chinese languages.
For better readability, the phone can display the English fonts in a bigger font-size. For information on how to administer this feature, see Setting a larger display font size. The downloadable language files contain all the information required for the phone to present the language as part of the user interface.
Use the configuration file (46xxsettings.txt) and the following parameters to customize the settings for up to four languages
Use the 46xxsettings.txt file to customize the language of the phone.
  • LANGUAGES- Specifies the language files to be installed or downloaded to the phone. File names can be full URLs, absolute path names, relative path names, or file names. File names must end in .xml. For example, to indicate that Russian, Parisian French, Latin American Spanish, and Korean are the available languages, set the LANGUAGES parameter to the following:
    SET LANGUAGES Mlf_J159_Russian.xml,Mlf_J159_ParisianFrench.xml,Mlf_J159_LatinAmericanSpanish.xml,Mlf_J159_Korean.xml
    Note:
    From Avaya J100 Series IP Phones Release 4.1.9 and later, the firmware embeds all supported language files. The phone does not need to download the language files from the provisioning server. However, you must specify the LANGUAGES parameter to list the languages available to the user. The LANGUAGES parameter can also specify a custom language file name. The phone then downloads a custom language from the provisioning server.
  • SYSTEM_LANGUAGE- Contains the name of the default system language file used in the phone. The file name must be one of the files listed in the LANGUAGES parameter. If no file name is specified or the file name does not match one of the LANGUAGES values, the phone uses its built-in English text strings. The file name must end in .xml.
  • LANG0STAT- Enables users to select the built-in English language when other languages are downloaded. If LANG0STAT is "0" and at least one language is downloaded, the user cannot select the built-in English language. If LANG0STAT is "1" (the default), the user can select the built-in English language text strings.
To download a language file or to review pertinent information, go to the Avaya Support website.
Note:
Specifying a language other than English in the configuration file does not impact on Avaya Communication Manager settings, values, or text strings.