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MicrosoftDiscussion: Edge displays in an unexpected language
- Edge user interface (menus, toolbars, settings, developer tools, etc.) displays in an unexpected language
- The New Tab Page, which shows news and weather, displays content in/ an unexpected language or region
- Websites you browse are appearing in an unexpected language, and Edge doesn't offer to translate the page
- Other
- The Microsoft Edge Team
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- When Edge is first installed it should pick up the default system language and prioritise that. I may be wrong but it seems the default language is English USA which tries to put the letter Z where S should be which is real annoying. I have had to manually change the language setting for Edge which I believe is unnecessary unless for some reason I want my PC to be in one language and my browser in another. I can't think of a reason why I'd want that.
- I would like clear documentation how Edge interacts with Windows language settings like the ones below. I am specifically interested in their effects on the HTTP Accept-language header value.
* Order of the Windows language list
* Selected value for Input Method Override Settings/Devices/Keyboard
* Selected value for "Let websites provide locally relevant content by accessing my lanaguage list".
* Device "Region" setting - Settings/Time&Language/Region
* Selected value in "Regional format data" -Settings/Time&Language/Region
Also do these settings impact only the installer, or do they influence the language settings for each user profile?
- Ömer
Thanks for your post. I suspect my situation is close to the issue that you raise.
Since recently adding sync to my account, both Edge user interface and The New Tab Page appear in German. I am an anglophone who lives in the French part of Switzerland and don't know a word of German, so don't even know how to access settings (all in German) to correct this. English is selected under My profile.
kopoku I recognize the problem but what is the solution? When will that be posted. I just purchased a new computer after having given up on edge I tried it again. In 3 days it was in chinese. I can not read it. I do not have that option selected in my computer OR browser. Brave has no problems, Opera has no problems, Chrome has no problems, Firefox has no problems. The only browser that mysteriously changes language is Edge and this goes back to 2020. Still, no solution despite many many many people talking about it.
I am all about microsoft. I use all of the products but edge is useless to me in Chinese and there is no fix 3 years later.
I realize this post is old, but I'm hoping you can help here. I have an issue where random pages will show up in German - so far i've noticed it on docs.microsoft.com & on hp.com. I do not have German (or any other language besides English) in my Windows settings and I do not have any other language besides English setup within Edge. The New Page Tab is always in English. Most other pages are too. I usually am starting from a Bing search, and I have gone back to make sure the result is in English and so far, it always is, but when I click to go there I get German. Edge never offers to translate. I've only seen this issue on my work laptop, that has never been outside the US. This is on Windows 11. Hopefully something here will help.
- As soon as I use a VPN edge (canary) seems to force the language of the country I'm 'connected to' on me.
I realize it's easy to check where my endpoint is, and apparently edge makes use of it, but it would be great if you could explain how edge makes use of it and how to override it.
Because apparently much of the language selection I do in edge language configuration is ignored, and this is not always what people want.
What for instance if I'm traveling - I might want to be able to select to either operate as if I'm still at home (as far as possible, at least when it comes to language and in what language I get ads) or in the country I'm visiting. kopoku Why is this continuing to happen again?? Tons of people online talking about it, non stop changing to simplified chinese. Half in English and half in Chinese. Absolutely ALL settings are set to English and US region, app and phone. This is ONLY with the edge browser. This has become an absolute nightmare.
