No, no, it is not the string, that worries me. Sorry for my bad explanation: I
just used this example to demonstrate that there is no reaction of passing this
parameter to nomencl.
If you put "german" in the document class options than all works fine: it
changes the name of "Nomenclature" to "Symbolverzeichnis" (I use also
Nomenklatur like you in your example, but the official translations seems to be
"Symbolverzeichnis") and if you are passing the pageref option it also changes
"page" to the German "Seite".
But this works *only* passing the options via the document class option and this
destroys my language setting naustrian to german as well. If you pass the option
via \PassOptionsToPackage{german}{nomencl} there is no reaction at all. No
German heading but more importantly no change of "page" to "Seite".
Peter