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questions regarding language-related computer issues, including the setting or changing of languages

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"Sorry, cannot change the language yet" error when changing language in Windows Vista Home Premium

Good evening, I have installed the Greek language for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 x86 32-bit as my system is, but it has not changed. It throws me the following error code for the Windows Update ...
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How to translate PDF for technical field? what about constraining input and output to reduce correction by hand? [closed]

I need to translate with Word 365, and has always been correcting for following: text recognition translated text Because: Technical Documents has much fewer text possibilities Each Industry has ...
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How do I change Windows 11 GUI direction from RTL to LTR?

My Windows 11 GUI is shown right-to-left, e.g., the "Start" button is at the right. I would like the GUI to be right-to-left. What I tried: In the "Display" Settings, there is an &...
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Switch Microsoft Office user interface language to English

I have this big problem, that Office 365 switched to Polish user interface some time ago. And the problem is, that I cannot set it back to English, no matter what I do. I'm Polish and I've paid for ...
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Cannot change entire Windows 10 system from Spanish to English

I bought an Asus laptop several years ago and for some reason the operating system is partly in Spanish. For example, when I go to the Start menu, the menu options are listed in Spanish (Documentos, ...
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Is it possible to add a custom language to windows 10 using a font I have installed?

So this is a bit of an odd question, and potentially adding a custom language is not the best way to go about it. So please suggest any alternatives otherwise. But I have installed a runic font, of ...
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Force the input language of Chrome's address bar to default to English

I often switch between two input languages while I'm browsing depending on the context of what I'm doing. However, when I go to the address bar, 99% of the time, I want to type something in English ...
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How to remove a third language (English (USA) 319 Latin) that appears to my keyboard layout in Windows 11?

I have a Dell Inspiron 14 5425 laptop running Windows 11. Recently, I noticed that a third language has been added to my keyboard layout, which is English (USA) 319 Greek-Latin or something like that. ...
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Default language for Word documents

I am using Word on two different PC with one of them running in Hungarian, and the other runs in English. What I have noticed, is that a Word file that is created in the Hungarian Word, will always ...
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Convince macOS and FireFox that I speak English

On macOS and FireFox I have always installed everything in an English locale and set everything I can find to English, yet the browser and OS both frequently seem to change languages at random times ...
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Yazidi language support in Windows 10

on my computer, with windows 10, from the web browsers (firefox, chrome) I can view sites in various languages that have an alphabet different from the Latin one (Chinese, Japanese, Central Kurdish/...
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Windows 10 shows English and Japanese as languages, but refuses to switch between them

I have a windows 10 pro x64 (22H2 build 19045.2604) install with both "English (Canada)" and "Japanese" languages installed, and while previously using left-alt+left-shift would ...
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I can't seem to find my keyboard layout

I have this 2015 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 that has an AZERTY keyboard but I can't seem to find the correct language on Windows OS. HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload "Data" column ...
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How to permanently change proofing language in OneNote v. 16.70?

My proofing language is set to Norwegian, however, I would like to permanently change it to English (United Kingdom). I am able to set it to English, but every time I make a new document, it changes ...
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Selecting All Hebrew Text in an English and Hebrew Word Document

I have a document with both English and Hebrew text. I want to select all the Hebrew text at the same time so I don't have to go in and find and highlight the Hebrew manually in order to change the ...
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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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Windows 10 as admin add language to non admin account

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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Remove Chinese from Microsoft Word

Because I have Chinese language support installed on my computer, MS word decided I want to use Chinese in all of my word document and this seems to trigger weird bugs in Word, periodically. My styles ...
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Anyway around ISO 639 when setting the language of a Track with FFMPEG?

research into FFMPEG seems to imply that the tool will reject audio clips whos language cannot conform to ISO 639. ffmpeg -y -i audionl.mp4 -c:a copy -metadata:s:a:0 language=en output.mp4 Needs to be:...
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How to remove the Spanish keyboard from my computer? [duplicate]

This language exists on my computer but it never gets removed. It is not found in the language and preferences list so I can't remove it from there. When I try adding it using "Add language" ...
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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 a look at this ...
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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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