Installing a language and configuring user preferences

Odoo is localization ready, meaning that it supports several languages and locale settings, such as date and number formats.

When first installed, only the default English language is available. To have other languages and locales available to the users, we need to install them.

Getting ready

We will need to have the Developer Mode activated. If it's not, activate it as pointed out in the Activating the Odoo developer tools recipe from Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment.

How to do it...

To install a new language in an Odoo instance, follow these steps:

1. Select the Settings | Translations | Load a Translation menu option. On the resulting dialog, select the language to install from the list of available languages. If website is installed, you will also be given the option to pick the websites where the language will be available:
   
2. Now, click on the Load button and the language will be installed:
   
3. New languages can also be installed...