Questions tagged [language]
questions regarding language-related computer issues, including the setting or changing of languages
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How to prevent Windows 10 from automatically adding keyboard layouts (i.e. US keyboard)
Update: this is a lengthy post, you can jump straight to the answer below
Note: The quick language list refers to the list in the screenshot below, accessible throught the shortcut Win + Space bar
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Change Windows 7/8/10 system language - welcome screen, login, etc
Changing an admininstrator user language is pretty straight-forward, but it does not change the language of the Boot screen, Welcome screen, Login screen, etc...
Pretty much anything that's not on ...
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Is it possible to have several languages in Windows 8?
I had Windows 7 Ultimate before I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and before, in Windows Update, there were updates that allowed me to install more language packs for Windows. After installing the updates I ...
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How can I change the spell check and auto-correction language of IE10/Windows8?
Is there any way I can change the spell-check and auto-correct Language of IE10/Windows8? It seems to want me to write Norwegian, but I usually write English...
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How do you make Google's interface always be in your chosen language?
Google's interface and search results don't always appear in my preferred language, English. I'm located in Mexico City and, although I generally have no problem with Spanish, I would prefer search ...
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How can I force my browser to search Google in English? [duplicate]
I'm too bored of seeing sites like Google and such show up in my native language, I would rather like them to be in English. Yet, I have to explicitly change the URL to .com and en and that kind of ...
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Can I Start particular program with different language settings in Windows
I am using my windows with Turkish language as first choice. Non-Unicode programs also use Turkish language.
My particular program, Visual Studio 2005 (Business Intelligence Studio 2005) is behaving ...
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United Kingdom keyboard (language) is added automatically
I've set keyboard languages: ENGLISH-US (not United Kingdom!) and ქარ (my local language).
Sometimes, I see that "ENGLISH (UNITED KINGDOM) [now "United States-International"] keyboard ...
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Change the spell-checking language on a PowerPoint presentation
I received a PowerPoint presentation with dozens of slides, each of them with a number of text boxes. Although the presentation is written in English, the language for spell checking is set to ...
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How to install a language pack in Windows 7 Professional
How i can install any language for example Hebrew in Windows 7 Professional ?
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Change spelling check language for a Document in Microsoft Word 2010
Usually I use Microsoft Word 2010 to write English documents
Now I'm editing a document of another language, and want to change the spelling check language of this document
This change should not ...
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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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How do I change my Chrome language back to English?
Suddenly, my Chrome language has been changed to Tamil. I didn't make this change manually. I don't know how to change this setting to English.
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Can I change Windows 7 display language on Home Premium version?
My neighbor just bought a Windows 7 laptop. He's from Mexico originally, and he wants to switch it over to use Spanish. Before I even helped him, he was able to switch it over to use a Spanish ...
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How to set start screen tiles' language in Windows 8
I've installed English Windows 8 x64 on my notebook and selected Slovenian as locale during installation. Like so:
The problem I'm having now is that my tiles on start screen display in Slovenian ...
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How to install a new "display language" onto Windows 8.1 Single Language?
Unfortunately, on my PC was pre installed Windows 8.1 Single Language (BR Portuguese) and I can't change the "display language" from BR-PT to US English because don't have any options; for that ...
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What exactly is the consequence of changing the "system locale" in Windows 8?
I read http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/change-the-system-locale (windows 8 linked me to this help page)
and I still can't completely understand what that means. In which way is the ...
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Set Chromium to always automatically translate all languages
Is there any way to set Chromium to always automatically translate websites in all languages so I don't have to do "Always translate websites in LANGUAGE" every time I come across a website in a new ...
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How to set the default language in Notepad++
I mostly use Notepad++ for dealing with XML files. It would be good if Notepad++ parsed and colorized my files based on the XML language when I open the files. Instead, I have to open the file, pick ...
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Canadian English on Apple products
Apple is an American company. As many of you probably know, Canadian English is different from American English, and closer to British English (e.g. colour instead of color). I use iWork and Microsoft ...
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Changing the Windows XP interface from French to English
My friend bought a laptop in Paris. The current language (in Windows XP) is set to French - I want everything to show up in English.
I am now only able to show or change the regional settings, which ...
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Different available keyboard layouts in language bar and Text Services and Input Languages
I don't really know a good way to describe this problem, so please take a look at the picture. There should be something odd about it.
My problem is that when I install Serbian Latin layout, CJK ...
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Cannot remove language pack on Windows 10 PC
I need to delete Russian language pack, but in Language settings 'Remove' button is not highlighted.
When I try removing it with lpksetup.exe /u command in cmd it says 'Language is the system ...
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Setting the content language of cells in Excel
In MS Excel, is it possible to set the content language of cells e.g. per column? The purpose would be, among other things, to make proper spelling checks when the content is multilingual (e.g., a ...
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How do I make Firefox spellcheck in multiple languages simultaneously?
I want Firefox to assume that text may be in a mixture of languages and words should be looked up in multiple dictionaries. (For example, everything in en-GB, en-US, ru, be and be-classic should be ...
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Why does Windows change the input language randomly?
I work on an English version of Windows XP Pro, but my working language is Spanish. My default input language is set to Spanish, but sometimes Windows changes this setting automatically when you ...
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Have Chrome autodetect language before spelling checking?
Chrome can automatically spell check emails I am writing in Gmail. I have two language installed: Dutch and English in both UK and US versions. And I type emails in both languages regularly. However, ...
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Problem removing US keyboard layout from input languages
I'm working on English (UK) version of Windows 7, my second input language is Russian.
Since installation of Windows I have removed US keyboard layout and set LEFT ALT+SHIFT as input switcher.
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How can I switch the language in which websites are displayed in Chrome browser?
I would like all websites that I visit in my Chrome browser to be displayed in English.
This example of Sunrise Calendar in the Chrome Webstore, for instance, is being displayed in German.
How can ...
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Keyboard shortcuts in non-English version of Microsoft Office
I have a big problem with the Portuguese version of MS Office 2007 and 2010.
The standard shortcuts that any common application uses are changed.
Some shortcuts that are not working: Ctrl+s (save), ...
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Windows adding additional keyboard languages by itself
I have this really annoying problem with Win7 adding random keyboard language layouts...
I am using Swedish and Japanese since I live in japan and i only use these two (As I can write all the english ...
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Windows 10 - Windows Display Languages cause automatic keyboards adding
I have troubles with Windows 10 keyboard settings. I wish to keep the only two languages and keyboards:
English (United States) - US Keyboard
Czech - Czech Keyboard
However, I see the following ...
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Complicated input language and display language setup in Windows 8
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I live in Russia and use in everyday life 3 languages: Russian, English and Japanese.
If you use Japanese IME you don't need to have English input language by itself, Japanese IME has direct ...
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Setting "LANG=C LC_ALL=C" in script has no effect on padding length for non-English characters in printf
I am working on formatting the output of a Bash script into a table such that the pipe characters used to represent the bounds of each column are spaced relative to the longest string in that column (...
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Outlook 2016 language detection doesn't work
I'm baffled, as the title says, the auto detection just doesn't work. I can manually change the language of any given email, but it won't autodetect. The languages are pretty different, so it shouldn'...
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Windows 7 - use [Win key] + Space for Switch Language
In windows 8, I love how I can switch to Japanese input by pressing [Win key] + [space bar].
Can I do this in Windows 7 without auto hotkey or special programs?
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Ubuntu: errors in terminal: how to show them in english language?
i installed Ubuntu in italian language. Now I would like to see the error commands in english.
For example if i write:
$ mmmm
This is showed:
mmmm: comando non trovato
I would like that
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Change language of command in Excel
How can you change the language of the commands in Excel to English? Now the language of the commands are in Dutch (equal to the language of my pc). But can you change it into English? I use Windows ...
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How to fix a keyboard layout on each Windows 10 computer?
I use Windows 10 with the same Microsoft account on 3 different computers, each one with a different physical keyboard layout: ITA, UK, DE.
In "Control panel - Clock and International settings - ...
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How do I revert Chrome's Google search to English after experimenting with the new Chrome feature that detects when I change country? [duplicate]
Sometime over the past year Google Chrome introduced a feature that detects when you use it in a new country and asks something like "Your location has changed. Do you want to set the language to XXX?"...
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Change Safari language setting? (Mac OS X)
When I bought my MBP Safari worked fine and it's default language was En but after I added Farsi as my second Language Safari now uses my Farsi setting and show all text in RTL (because in Farsi I ...
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Software to rename files with Japanese or Korean character/letter filenames to their Romanized (Roman/Latin letters) equivalents [closed]
Is there a program (for Windows) that will rename files with Japanese or Korean characters/letters in their filenames to their Romanized (Roman/Latin letters) equivalents (preferably Hepburn ...
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How do I type the Spanish inverted question mark in Emacs?
I want to write in Spanish without having to keep Charmap open! How do I type the Spanish inverted question and exclamation marks?
¡Quiero escribir en Castellano sin usar el charmap! ¿Cómo escribo ...
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Change system language from Russian to English in Vista
When I went over to Russia, my host family bought me a laptop as a farewell present. It was all fine and dandy, but I really did prefer it if the language of the Start Menu and all other components ...
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How to change Windows default language to another language, but temporarily?
How to change Windows default language temporarily? For example, English to Russian, but for some time and without losing anything. I will revert back to English.
I want to change Language settings ...
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Why does alt+shift change language for all applications in Windows 8?
In Windows 7, if there are two opened application, when one is focused and you press alt+shift it changes language for that application. Then after focus is switch to another application the language ...
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Is Windows Home and Windows Home Single Language is same edition?
I have a product key for windows 8.1 (Single language edition or not that i can't remember). I have currently windows 10 pro installed.
I am planning to install windows 10 Home so i activate with ...
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Changing the language in Windows 8.1 single language
I followed the instructions in this question How to install a new "display language" onto Windows 8.1 Single Language? but now windows won't start properly, the screen is on but it's just ...
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Windows 8 - 2 languages. How to lock keyboard to only one?
I have small problem with my keyboard languages.
I have 2 languages installed on my PC.
I have English set as display language and Polish used for Keyboard layout, date and time.
(I just don't like ...
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Microsoft Word switches fonts when I switch input language
I am using Microsoft Word 2016 from my Office 365 subscription with the default template for new documents. When I type in English characters, they are put into the document using the correct default ...
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