08-26-2022 08:40 PM
I use LabVIEW 2022 Q3 and often see help because I'm not so familiar with LabVIEW. As discussed in the link below, LabVIEW help becomes "Online" in this version. I'm confused by this unexpected change not mentioned in "Changed in LabVIEW"
https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Offline-Help-window-in-LabVIEW-2022/td-p/4250580
I configured not to see online help by removing check from NI help Preferences. In this setting, I can refer help via NI Offline Help Viewer. This viewer has "language" menu. I'm Japanese, not English native speaker, so this function sounds good for me. I switched the language to Japanese with the expectation that the viewer shows documentations written in Japanese.
I absolutely selected Japanese. It's true that some word are translated. I may should be impressed the fact that no less than 9 or 10 Japanese word are displayed. English native speaker must get more information than us Japanese from this help. This useless translation is shown in not only Japanese, but also any other language, French, German, Simplified Chinese and Korean. NI Help Viewer says to supports multi-languages. So I believe that I must be able to access Help document in other language. How do I translate LabVIEW Offline Help into my native language in LabVIEW 2022?
08-27-2022 12:11 AM - edited 08-27-2022 12:14 AM
In an environment where both the localized 32-bit version and the English 64-bit version are installed, it seems that you can also switch to the localized version of the help.
@NI
Currently, it seems that you can only view help files in the same language as the LabVIEW installation, but it would be nice to be able to install help files in any language later.
The 64-bit version is currently only available in English, but it would be helpful if you could make it possible to view the localized help without having to install the localized 32-bit version.