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Language packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint 2013. You install language packs, which contain language-specific site templates, on web and application servers.
Can a language pack translate a web page?
Language packs provide translation only of the user interface. They do not translate content that is created and shown in content pages or Web Parts. You can use the Machine Translation service to enable users to automatically translate documents.
Do you have to install a language pack?
By default, when a site owner creates a new web page in a site, the site displays text in the language that is specified by the language ID. Language packs are not bundled into multilingual installation packages. You must install a specific language pack for each language that you want to support.
Do you need to install language packs on server farm?
If you have a server farm environment and you are installing language packs to support multiple languages, you must install the language packs on each web and application server. The language pack is installed in its native language. The procedure that follows is for the English language pack.
Language packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server. You install language packs, which contain language-specific site templates, on each SharePoint server in your farm.
If you are uninstalling SharePoint Server, you must uninstall all language packs before you uninstall SharePoint Server. Site owners or site collection administrators who create sites or site collections can select a language for each site or site collection.
How to create multiple languages in SharePoint Server?
SharePoint language packs enable you to create site collections and sites in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server. A farm administrator must install language packs on all web and application servers in the SharePoint farm before sites can be created in languages other than the default language.
From a site page, click Settings , click Site Settings. If you don’t see Site settings, click Site information and then click View all site settings. Some pages might require you to select Site contents, and then Site settings. On the settings page, in the Site Administration section, click Language Settings.