MOSS How To: Change List/Site Template language

hey guys,

It's not a secret that sharepoint can't handle different language templates, so what if you have e.g. a english template which you want to use on a german system!?

Here is a workaround for you:

• The first thing what you have to do is to save the template on your local computer.
• Then rename the template.stp into template.cab
• Extract all files of the *.cab file
• In the extracted folder you will find an manifest.xml open it with an editor e.g. notepad, textpad
• replace the current language id with the german one (1031) search the manifest file for the following strings
  
  • <Language>1033</Language>
    
  • <Locale>1033</Locale>
  • 1033\STS\
  • Layouts\1033\
  • /_layouts/1033/

• If it is an site template then you need to replace the following also
  1. en-us with e.g. de-de
• Save the manifest file with your changes
• The next step is to create a new *.cab file with the changes you made
  
• To do this use the CABARC.exe, you can find an download here
• Open the command prompt and use the following statement:
  
  • CABARC.EXE  N "[TemplateFilePath].cab" [FolderIncludingTheManifestFile]"\\*.*\
• Rename the generated *.cab file into *.stp
  
• Upload the new template into an german enviroment
  
• And try to create the List or Site with the new template
  

Hope it helps someone.

greets

nadine