Display language of the code spaces editor UI (web) #38946

markusgerber76 · 2022-11-12T19:24:43Z

markusgerber76
Nov 12, 2022

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Please allow selecting language (natural language) of the code spaces editor UI (web). For example, many European devs prefer English as the UI language rather than French or German.

Answered by UsatiyNyan

Apr 17, 2023

Fixed this in Chrome by going into settings and editing "Preferred languages" option.

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erikaellr · 2022-11-14T22:32:43Z

erikaellr
Nov 14, 2022

Hi @markusgerber76 , we're so happy you're using Codespaces! If I'm understanding you correctly, I think we do support what you're trying to do. Press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette and type "display language" to filter, then click the "Configure Display Language" command and choose from the list of supported languages. You'll be prompted to reload for that change to take effect.

Additionally, it may help you in the future to note that the web editor (github.dev) has all the functionality of VSCode Desktop - eg, searching for "vscode change ui language" might yield useful results even where you don't find anything specific to Codespaces.

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Konamiman Nov 23, 2022

I must be missing something because "display language" yields nothing in the command palette nor in the search bar of the settings page. Neither in codespaces, nor in the desktop VS Code.

Manbiz1 Jun 6, 2023

wjandrea May 11, 2024

How do I change it for my account? I tried Settings Sync, but that didn't work. I'm not sure if I missed something or I really do need to change the display language for every new Codespace.

Edit: Display language isn't synced and doesn't seem to be configurable . (links go to a reply and the post it was replying to, just to be clear)

Broodlisk Jun 8, 2024

This one solved my problem! Thank you very much.

milchalpenu · 2023-01-26T11:36:41Z

milchalpenu
Jan 26, 2023

Same. "display language" yields nothing.

Could you please auto select the default language selected by the developer

Browser language
OS language
Or at least Github.com web interface.

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milchalpenu · 2023-01-26T12:10:44Z

milchalpenu
Jan 26, 2023

@erikaellr
To clarify:

I am adding a couple of screenshots.

Just go to github.com
Open some repo
Open in codespaces in a browser (NOT IN DESKTOP APP).

then wait for the browser to load ONLINE vscode from SOMETHING..github.dev

If you see the above screenshots it is in German language.

Please give an option to make the MENUS into English.

FYI, I am using a completely ENGLISH installation of operating system, and browser.

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tfriedel Feb 18, 2024

yes please. This is infuriating! And no I don't want my browser set to english for ALL webpages.

mootari May 18, 2024

Open the command palette and search for "Configure Display Language":

After selecting the option you have a choice between various languages (with English being listed at the bottom):

Danura30082 May 23, 2024

@mootari
that option dosn't exist in VScode web

mootari May 23, 2024

@Danura30082 Those screenshots were taken in a GitHub codespace. If the option is missing in your vscode instance then that may be an issue with your particular version or configuration.

NomarCub · 2023-04-16T20:14:10Z

NomarCub
Apr 16, 2023

My primary language in my browser is also English, and got Hungarian for Codespaces. The methods suggested here don't work. I tried Configure Display Language in my local VSCode install after setting it to Hungarian, and it exists there, but not on Codespaces. Normal methods don't seem to work, as the display language is not saved to settings.json.

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UsatiyNyan · 2023-04-17T21:07:24Z

UsatiyNyan
Apr 17, 2023

Fixed this in Chrome by going into settings and editing "Preferred languages" option.

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moritzfelipe May 28, 2023

This worked. Didn't find another way in the UI. Bad UX.

markusgerber76 May 31, 2023
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Another option is to use this policy https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#ForcedLanguages

AnzhiZhang Feb 5, 2024

This is a workaround, people want other websites display as their first language, but English in Codespace.

garysassano · 2023-04-27T13:18:32Z

garysassano
Apr 27, 2023

Why Codespaces inherits the language from your browser instead of your GitHub account? This makes totally no sense.

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nerkn Jun 1, 2023

because much easier to read from browser settings than connecting github, and reading from there.

liudonghua123 Dec 22, 2023

Why not add a setting in https://github.com/settings/codespaces .

AnzhiZhang · 2024-02-05T12:36:30Z

AnzhiZhang
Feb 5, 2024

Please add a setting in Codespace, or synced from my account. I use my first language in browser but English in IDEs, whenever I open a new codespace, it automatically set to my browser's language.

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pior · 2024-03-24T16:12:37Z

pior
Mar 24, 2024

If Codespaces wants to be a real IDE, it needs to offer a better answer than "Change your whole browser configuration".

Setting a browser language to a local language, and sticking with English for coding/work is very common.

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