Default Language Field

Default Language Field

Sets the account's interface language. Offered in visitor mappings and in the owner-account part of exhibitor mappings.

The value lands on the account's Default Language field, stored as a two-letter ISO 639-1 language code (e.g. en, de, fr).


Behaviour

The field resolves the incoming source value using the strategy configured by the Language Matching option. Three strategies are available:

  • Direct code — takes the source value as a two-letter ISO 639-1 code, no table involved

  • By country ISO — maps a country ISO code to that country's primary language, using the fixed table below

  • By Aventri code — translates Aventri-specific language identifiers, using the fixed table below

If the resolved language code is not enabled on your ExpoPlatform environment (the set of available languages is configured per environment), or if the source value can't be resolved at all, the system default (English) is used — no error, no skip.


Options

Option

What it does

Default

Language Matching

The resolution strategy: Direct code, By country ISO, or By Aventri code.

Direct code


When synced visitors end up with English unexpectedly

Two things to check:

  1. The source value appears in the relevant table below

  2. The target language is enabled for your environment

If either isn't true, the fallback to English kicks in silently.


Fixed lookup tables

Only the combinations listed here can be mapped. Any source value not listed resolves to nothing and the system default is used.

By country ISO

Source country code

Resolved language

DE, AT, CH

German (de)

FR

French (fr)

IT

Italian (it)

ES

Spanish (es)

PT, BR

Portuguese (pt)

NL, BE

Dutch (nl)

RU

Russian (ru)

CN, TW, HK

Chinese (zh)

JP

Japanese (ja)

KR

Korean (ko)

SA, AE, EG

Arabic (ar)

TR

Turkish (tr)

PL

Polish (pl)

CZ

Czech (cs)

GB, US, AU, CA, IE, NZ, SG, IN, ZA

English (en)

By Aventri code

Aventri code

Resolved language

eng

English (en)

ara

Arabic (ar)

bah

Malay (ms)

cat

Catalan (ca)

chs, cht

Chinese (zh)

cze

Czech (cs)

dan

Danish (da)

dut

Dutch (nl)

fin

Finnish (fi)

fre, fca

French (fr)

ger

German (de)

gre

Greek (el)

heb

Hebrew (he)

hun

Hungarian (hu)

ita

Italian (it)

jap

Japanese (ja)

kor

Korean (ko)

nor

Norwegian (no)

pol

Polish (pl)

por

Portuguese (pt)

rom

Romanian (ro)

rus

Russian (ru)

slo

Slovak (sk)

spa

Spanish (es)

swe

Swedish (sv)

tha

Thai (th)

tur

Turkish (tr)

ukr

Ukrainian (uk)

vnm

Vietnamese (vi)


Which strategy for which integration

The By Aventri code strategy exists specifically for Aventri feeds, which deliver their own language identifiers. Other integrations typically use Direct code (when the source carries ISO 639-1 codes) or By country ISO (when the source carries country codes instead).