SWAT can be configured to display its messages to match the settings of the language configurations of your Web browser. It will be passed to SWAT in the Accept-Language header of the HTTP request.

To enable this feature:

The name of the msg file is the same as the language ID sent by the browser. For example, en means English, ja means Japanese, fr means French.

If you do not like some of messages, or there are no msg files for your locale, you can create them simply by copying the en.msg files to the directory for “your language ID.msg” and filling in proper strings to each “msgstr”. For example, in it.msg, the msg file for the Italian locale, just set:

msgid "Set Default"
msgstr "Imposta Default"

and so on. If you find a mistake or create a new msg file, please email it to us so we will consider it in the next release of Samba. The msg file should be encoded in UTF-8.

Note that if you enable this feature and the display charset is not matched to your browser's setting, the SWAT display may be corrupted. In a future version of Samba, SWAT will always display messages with UTF-8 encoding. You will then not need to set this smb.conf file parameter.