Danny,
Once a language pack is loaded, you need to change your user preferences to that language. Then login again and navigate to database configuration / messages. Now change the text from the base language into the new language, upon save, Maximo will store the text into the l_messages table for that respective message/language (ownerid = maxmessageid). The same is true for field labels in Application Designer. I think this is very difficult to do through the UI for an administrator that doesn't know the language.
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Fred Conti
UPS
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