Languages

The list of languages choices in the language dropdown used for documents is based on the current ISO 639 list. This list can be quite extensive. To reduce the number of languages available use the setting DOCUMENTS_LANGUAGE_CODES, and set it to a nested list of abbreviations. This setting can be found in the System ‣ Setup ‣ Settings ‣ Common menu.

For example, to reduce the list to just English and Spanish use

DOCUMENTS_LANGUAGE_CODES = ('eng', 'spa')

The default language to appear on the dropdown can also be configured using:

DOCUMENTS_LANGUAGE = 'spa'

Use the correct ISO 639-3 language abbreviation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639) as this code is used in several subsystems in Mayan EDMS such as the OCR app to determine how to interpret the document.

If using the Docker image, these settings can also be passed to the container as environment variables by prepending the MAYAN_ suffix.

Example:

-e MAYAN_DOCUMENTS_LANGUAGE_CODES='["eng", "spa"]'

For more information check out the environment variables chapter of the Settings chapter.