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Provisioner, by default, provisions systems with U.S. English language and U.S keyboard support.
In order to customize the provisioning process to support other languages, edit the kickstart file in the Template Role's GUI page in the area shown below:

Example 1: Provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x with Japanese language and keyboard support
Comment out the following lines:
#lang en_US.UTF-8
#keyboard us
Insert the following lines:
lang ja_JP.UTF-8
keyboard jp106
Under %packages, add a line for language support:
@ Japanese-support
The resulting provisioned system will be similar to:

Example 2: Provisioning CentOS 5.x with Japanese language and keyboard support
Comment out the following lines:
#lang en_US.UTF-8
#langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
#keyboard us
Insert the following lines:
lang ja_JP.UTF-8
langsupport --default=ja_JP.UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8
keyboard jp106
Under %packages, add a line for language support and comment out "@ office":
@ Japanese-support
#@ office
The resulting provisioned system will be similar to:

For other language codes and for RHEL/CentOS kickstart customization, visit https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html