Administering Telephone Options
100 Avaya 1600 Series IP Deskphones Administrator Guide
Language Selection
1600 Series IP Telephones are factory-set to display information in the English language. The
languages available depend of the type of telephone you have. The following 1600 Series IP
Telephones are available:
●Global telephones
-1603
- 1603SW
-1608
-1616
●International telephones
- 1603-I
- 1603SW-I
- 1608-I
- 1616-I

1600 Series Global Telephones

The 1600 Series Global Telephones consist of the following telephone models:
●1603
●1603SW
●1608
●1616
As of Release 1.0, all software downloads include language files for 9 additional languages.
Administrators can specify from one to four of those languages per telephone to replace
English. End users can then select which of those languages they want their telephone to
display.
All downloadable language files contain:
●UTF-16 encoded Unicode characters (only)
●a file name ending in .txt
●the language name as it should be presented to the user for selection
●a translation of each available language name into all other languages
●an indication of the preferred character input method as shown in Table13