Each site is bound to a specific locale (see Locale). In order to ensure a consistent usage of locale strings across multiple sites that might be managed in a single content repository, the entire list of available locales is maintained in a central content item of type CMSettings.

The content item /Settings/Options/Settings/LocaleSettings contains in the property Settings a String List property availableLocales which contains locale strings. Example 5.9, “XML of locale Struct” shows the XML structure of the Struct:

 <settings>
  <Struct xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2008/struct"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <StringListProperty Name="availableLocales">
      <String>de</String>
    </StringListProperty>
  </Struct>
</settings> 

Please make sure, that the path to the LocaleSettings is configured in the Studio properties, as described in Section 9.22, “Available Locales” in Studio Developer Manual.

For providing a new locale, you can simply open the content item LocaleSettings and add a new entry to the list of locales. See Section 4.6.4, “Editing Struct Properties” in Studio User Manual for details on how to edit a struct property and add items to string lists. Figure 5.28, “Locales Administration in CoreMedia Studio” shows a Studio tab in which the LocalesSettings content item is being edited.

Sometimes you might want to define locales for a supranational region such as Africa or Latin America. In this case you can add the language code followed by the UN M.49 area code as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_M.49. For Spanish in Latin America and the Caribbean add, for example, "es-419".

Figure 5.28. Locales Administration in CoreMedia Studio