When you log into a BSCW server for the first time, BSCW will display your 
Folder page (see chapter 3). In this page -- and throughout the HTML-based user interface -- BSCW will consistently display text and buttons in one of the languages installed on the server you use.
If you prefer a different language over the one initially displayed by BSCW in your Folder page, you should change the interface language right at the beginning of your work with this BSCW server.
The interface language is a personal, user-defined option. It only affects your view of the information presented. BSCW lets you select a different language for the user interface at any time:
to bring up the form Edit preferences for your user name. There you may set a number of Preferences, among them the user interface language.
Display all user messages in
If you choose German, the online help is in German, too. At the moment, all other languages are combined with an online help in English.
... While you're here, ...
If your email program can interpret HTML (the email components of the leading Web browser do so, for example), select
Receive email in HTML
below the language selection in the 'Edit preferences' form. This will not only give you a nicer layout of the emails that BSCW sends you, but also easy-to-use links to the objects the emails refer to.
to set the preferences. BSCW will again display the Folder page where you clicked [Edit Prefs] -- now in the language just selected.
Before you now start to use BSCW, it is a good idea to fill in your personal Info page (see section 2.4).