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Terminal UI appears in German when using English UK as default #12996

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opened 2026-01-31 03:30:59 +00:00 by claunia · 5 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:30:59 +00:00
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Originally created by @garetho-starwind on GitHub (Mar 12, 2021).

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Windows build number: Win32NT             10.0.19042.0 Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19042.0
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 1.6.10571.0

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Steps to reproduce

In the Windows "Preferred Languages" settings.
Set "English (United Kingdom)" as first option
Set "German (Germany)" as the second option

Launch Windows Terminal

Expected behavior

Expected behaviour would be that all tool tips and messages would be in English
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Actual behavior

All of the Tool tips and messages are actually appearing in German
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NOTE: If you put "English (United States)" above "German (Germany)" in the Preferred languages then the tool tips and messages are as expected, so looks like just an issue with ignoring the "English (United Kingdom)" preference

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claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:31:00 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2021):

NOTE: If you put "English (United States)" above "German (Germany)" in the Preferred languages then the tool tips and messages are as expected, so looks like just an issue with ignoring the "English (United Kingdom)" preference

Huh. I was gonna say that this sounds like a duplicate of #5497 (or at least, what that issue is tracking), but that's weird.

@DHowett you're the loc expert - any idea why UK English doesn't work but US English does?

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2021): > NOTE: If you put "English (United States)" above "German (Germany)" in the Preferred languages then the tool tips and messages are as expected, so looks like just an issue with ignoring the "English (United Kingdom)" preference Huh. I was gonna say that this sounds like a duplicate of #5497 (or at least, what that issue is tracking), but that's weird. @DHowett you're the loc expert - any idea why UK English doesn't work but US English does?
claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:31:00 +00:00
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@DHowett commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2021):

This is a weird and specific issue with language fallback that I don't totally understand.

The resource loader takes a set intersection of the user's preferred languages and the application's supported languages. When it does that, it is very specific and will only choose languages with a matching country code.

Here's what it looks like:

User Language List          Terminal Language
------------------          -----------------
English (UK) - en_GB        
German (Germany) - de_DE    de_DE
English (US) - en_US        en_US

There's no automatic fallback from en_GB to en_US. I also don't know if it would fall back from en_GB to just en. :|

@DHowett commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2021): This is a weird and specific issue with language fallback that I don't totally understand. The resource loader takes a set intersection of the user's preferred languages and the application's supported languages. When it does that, it is **very** specific and will only choose languages with a matching country code. Here's what it looks like: ``` User Language List Terminal Language ------------------ ----------------- English (UK) - en_GB German (Germany) - de_DE de_DE English (US) - en_US en_US ``` There's no automatic fallback from en_GB to en_US. I also don't know if it would fall back from en_GB to just `en`. :|
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@j4james commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2021):

FYI, the problem of regional English variants not falling back to US English has been brought up several times before. For example, see #6943 and #6931. And there was at least one example of it in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5497#issuecomment-628913822. I thought it was accepted that this was just the way Windows works.

@j4james commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2021): FYI, the problem of regional English variants not falling back to US English has been brought up several times before. For example, see #6943 and #6931. And there was at least one example of it in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5497#issuecomment-628913822. I thought it was accepted that this was just the way Windows works.
claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:31:00 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 15, 2021):

Alright well that answers my question. For the rest, I'll just direct this to the bucket we've been throwing this in previously

/dup #5497

Thanks everyone!

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 15, 2021): Alright well that answers my question. For the rest, I'll just direct this to the bucket we've been throwing this in previously /dup #5497 Thanks everyone!
claunia commented 2026-01-31 03:31:01 +00:00
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 15, 2021):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 15, 2021): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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