---
title: "Languages: The App, the Template and SAP"
description: "The app language, the language MDM sends to SAP, descriptions stored per language, units per language, and files prepared in one language and used in another."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/concept-languages"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
section: "Key Concepts"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Languages: The App, the Template and SAP

> The app language, the language MDM sends to SAP, descriptions stored per language, units per language, and files prepared in one language and used in another.

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**Contains:** the app language (launchpad setting, browser) is also the language MDM sends to SAP; SAP stores descriptions once per language and takes the language of the user who processes the Task (the "Description Language" column); units of measure are written as SAP shows them in your language (KG in English); labels and value names in your language where SAP maintains them; a file prepared in one language and processed in another may fail on unit codes.

**Related information:** `filling-in-values`, `browsers-devices-languages`.

**Source in the product repository:** help-portal notes "Units of measure follow the user's SAP language", "Long text language"; `srv/lib/sap-language.js`.