Questions tagged [language]
questions regarding language-related computer issues, including the setting or changing of languages
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What settings should I define in Windows 10? Location: France, Keyboard: Norwegian, Language: English
My question is relatively simple.
The ultimate goal of it is to avoid this unwanted behavior:
unwanted keyboards
if you check on the Internet or here on superuser.com you'll find long topics with ...
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Does Windows 11 always come with English language choice in OOBE?
The title of the question asks it all. Will you always be able to select English as language when walking through the Out of Box Experience in Windows 11. No matter what the language is in the region ...
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Add language to non admin account - Windows 10 with Admin
I want to install a language on a non-admin account on the system.
While on my admin account I can install Text-to-speech and all other features, on the non-admin account I can only install display ...
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Thunderbird Default Language Fail: Canadian English for California, Configuration Rejection, and No Alternatives
Thunderbird persistently offers only Canadian English as the default language option - I'm in California so God knows why.
Worse, it disregards having previously been configured for American English.
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What are these region codes for firmware files?
In particular I am looking at old firmware files for a 2005? mp3 player, the iRiver T30.
I am seeing obvious region/languages such as ENG (English), KOR (Korean), FRE (French), JAP (Japanese) but I am ...
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Cannot select language on website in Firefox on Linux, but can on Windows
My mother uses a Xubuntu computer for some basic surfing and mailing. When she visits the homepage of a local shopping store, she is greeted with a popup screen to select her preferred language. In ...
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Set default subtitle language based on language code (eng, spa, etc.), not the stream specifier
I batch downloaded videos from a channel, but the subtitle languages available for each video are not consistent. Is there a way to set a default subtitle using the language code (e.g. eng, spa, fra, ...
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ffmpeg/ffprobe won't detect the language of a WEBvtt (subtitles) file
A WEBvtt subtitle file starts with a few header lines, and one of them indicates the language:
WEBVTT
Kind: captions
Language: en
00:00:09.977 --> 00:00:11.563
I'd like you to take
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Set the primary keyboard language
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but how do I set the primary language to my keyboard, while keeping the rest of windows in English? Because im tired of switching to my keyboard ...
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Windows Language Input Change on Keyboard not working
Keyboard Language Input change is not working on Windows 10. How can I fix? Even Change with Alt-Shift does not work. I also noticed sometimes notepad opens up in Korean, even though I am using ...
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Regional Formats, create my own, covering ALL, how?
Is there a single easy option to have an "International" Region/Language option?
e.g. I wish to have a DATE format as indicated by these...
$ date --rfc-3339=date
2022-10-10
$ date --iso-...
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Cannot remove US Keyboard
I have a mildly infuriating problem where I cannot remove the US keyboard no matter what on Windows 11.
I currently live in Japan and the Japanese Input Method can very conveniently switch between ...
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Change Language Hotkeys reset for no reason (Windows 10)
Hey I'm using Windows 10. I created some hotkeys to change the keyboard layout to a specific language: Alt+Shift+1 changes the layout to language A, Alt+Shift+2 changes it to language B. The steps I ...
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How can uninstall an app whose name consists of garbled characters from Windows 10?
I want to uninstall the app whose name consists of garbled characters.
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MS word font falls to TimesNewRoman when going across Hebrew
Usually, I deal with MS Word in 3 languages (English, Hebrew, Arabic), It keep falls Back to Font: TimesNewRoman every time I write, or even toggle over the languages.
This problem actually occurs ...
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Get rid of LibreOffice’s all-language dictionary
I use LibreOffice, and since I write in multiple languages, I would like to have one dictionary per language rather than one for all (so e.g. French spellings will get flagged in an Italian text and ...
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Delete old Window Display Language after upgrading WIndows 10 Home SL to Windows 10 Pro
I upgraded my account license to Windows 10 Pro from a Windows 10 Home Single Language GB version.
I want to completely remove GB (British English) from my Display Languages but I can not do so.
I ...
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Recreate & replace recovery disk content Windows 10
Original new ASUS PC: Windows 10 Home Single Language, Spanish (incl. keyboard).
Changes intentionally made:
Replaced Spanish with Windows 10 Home Single Language, English. Method USB-boot media. ...
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English BIOS is now Chinese / English
My motherboard (MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX (MS-7C02) (AM4)), bought almost 3 years ago from a reputable seller, has a funny way of speaking English:
I do recall it used to be full English, about a year ...
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How to change interface direction in Windows? [duplicate]
I am currently using Windows 10 in English, which is a left-to-right language. But I wish I can still have English as my system and interface language, but the whole interface is reversed from left-to-...
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Windows CLI output in wrong language
I have set all the language settings I possibly can in the Control Panel (Set-WinSystemLocale did nothing).
However, when I run wsl --status, it still outputs in the wrong language. German in this ...
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Switching language input using Capslock:how to change by Shift + Caps Lock on LInux?
I have U.S. and Japanese (Hiragana) input on the Windows OS and US array Keyboard. My device is a Chuwi Corebook Pro (Japan) with Windows installed. On this device language switching was done with ...
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Setting the language and locale in Gnome on Debian-Bullseye has no effect
I have a machine with Gnome on Bullseye. I set both Language and the Formats to German and Germany respectively in the Region and Language section of Settings GUI. After I restart the session, ...
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How can I install separate language and region for non-admin Gnome user on Debian Bullseye?
I have created a non-admin user in Debian-Bullseye. In the Region & language section for both the root user and the new non-admin user, there's only English listed. When I click on the three dots ...
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Why do computer games often have their own language settings? [closed]
Computer video games often have their own language settings in the menu, and sometimes even prompt me what language I want to play in when I start them up. I don't recall seeing such behavior in any ...
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Outlook search bar options "from" change language automatically and stop working
Everytime when searching for an email at the search bar using the option "from" (e.g. typing from:[email]), Outlook change the language of the word "from" to "de" (...
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Double special characters on windows US-international keyboard layout
I use the US-international layout on windows 10 to be able to write accents, ñ or ¿(Spanish), but whenever I want to write some standard special characters (not all), like ^, ~, `, ' or " , I ...
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is localhost considered a NETBIOS name?
NETBIOS computer name is host name.
is "localhost" considered NETBIOS name?
for example local computer name is "CORP-DESKTOP", CORP-DESKTOP is NETBIOS name, is localhost NETBIOS ...
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How would I change my computer to a specific locale?
I'm trying to change my windows 10 to iso-8859-1, or Western European for non-unicode programs. However, I can't find "Western European" on my computer in the locales in control panel, and ...
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How to change the default browsing language on browsers?
I am living in Switzerland near the french part, so I speak french. Unfortunately, when I install a new PC and open a browser (any kind of browser), most pages are displayed in german because somehow ...
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Windows 10 completely switch system language
Running Windows 10 Pro for Workstations build 19042.867 I am having issues changing the system language from German which it shipped with to English (US).
What I did so far
Under Time & Language ...
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Install Windows 10 language pack check box not available on a domain laptop
Windows 10 add language pack dialog should look like this:
But for me it looks like this:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-properly-change-system-default-language-windows-10
I want to set the ...
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Windows 10 system language is incorrect
Originally, I just had one keyboard layout: English (United States). Then I added Russian. I did not change the Windows display, Apps & websites. However, after adding a second keyboard layout, my ...
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Change language in Windows 10 initial setup
I just bought a new laptop with Windows 10 Pro in it and when I booted it up for the first time I got the Windows 10 initial setup guide in what appears to be Polish and I don't speak Polish:
I don't ...
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Change of Windows display language fails for Windows 10 Home
I get error messages when installing a language pack on Windows 10 in order to change the Windows display language.
When I go through settings -> Language -> Options I get the message 'Connect ...
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Changing from one language to another on a video file using FFmpeg [duplicate]
I have a video file with Spanish language, but the lang flag on the file is 'eng' for English.
Trying to find a way to change the language flag to spa for Spanish before I process this file. I have ...
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Change Spell Checking Language in Signal Messenger for Linux or Windows
I would like to use multiple languages simultaneously for spell checking (similar to the mail client Evolution or the Slack client or similar to Google Chrome or similar to the Android keyboard) or at ...
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Why LanguageTool is not working on LibreOffice?
I am using LibreOffice 7.2.2.2. I have installed LanguageTool 5.4, then 5.5.1, but none of them are working. They only add buttons to the toolbar, though they do not react. What would you suggest?
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How to change input language just for Windows emoji keyboard
I've got my system language set to Spanish, as well as my keyboard input language. However, I'm used to search emojis in all apps that let you do so in English language (Telegram, Twitter, WhatsApp...)...
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disable or move keyboard-switching dialog while leaving functionality intact
I have several keyboard/language layouts on my Windows 10 machine, and I frequently switch between them using Windows key + Shift. My issue is that when I'm sharing my screen in a meeting, every time ...
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Inconsistent spelling on Windows 10 LTSC 2019 build 1809 set to English UK
I have set the display language on my system to English (UK) but several areas of the Settings app still shows US spellings, sometimes both within the same page, how to fix this?
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How to prevent Windows 11 from automatically adding keyboard layouts
why en-ZW added to my keyboard language?
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How to get rid of US language in Windows 11
I am sure I had same issue with Windows 10 and solved it. Now I can't solve it with Windows 11.
I have English (United Kingdom) language which is also locale language. I don't have English (United ...
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Trouble translating Mac network GUI to Windows one
I am an international student in France and in my dormitory there's a manual how to have access to Wi-Fi though it's in French and directed to macOS users. I have bought an Ethernet cable and ...
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How Do I Temporarily Change the Display Language in a Windows Command Prompt?
I have been trying to assist a Japanese Windows user troubleshoot a networking issue and wanted to see the results of ipconfig /all. However, when that user types this in a command prompt, the ...
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hard to always remember language change excel
I'm used to type in 2 different languages
how can I make that when I select specific cells in excel the keyboard language should temporary change to another language
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New Tab screen on Edge changed to Chinese and does not change back to English
For some mysterious reason (I do not know how), the New Tab screen on Edge changed to Chinese and does not change back to English, or any language, despite my attempts to do so (by using the options ...
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Windows 10, remove unwanted keyboard language not in preferences [duplicate]
I have French (Belgium) active as a keyboard language:
But's not in the Language preferences, so I'm not able to remove it:
The annoying thing is that my default language is qwerty (as is my ...
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adding keyboard QWERTY with Englisch-US and Russian keys
I have replaced the keyboard of my Dell E5410 laptop to a new QWERTY keyboard with English-US and Russian keys.
How can I add a proper keyboard in Windows 10. I want to work with all keys/symbols of ...
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W10 settings language won't change
One computer on Windows 10 does not completely change language even though everything is configured correctly. The PC correctly changes language except for the settings of Windows 10 who remain in the ...
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