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Change of notification language
Just wanted to give a quick follow up on this. Sorry for the delay, but I am still waiting for feedback from the affected user.
I finally was able to change the locale of the private channel's SP page. I wasn't able in the beginning, because I was only member of the channel (not owner) and therefore couldn't see any language settings. However, I now changed the local to English and hope that this solves the issue.
As I said, I'm still waiting for feedback and will let you know.
Thanks!
Hello,
in this case, it's a notification that an element has been added to a list.
For list notifications that come from the "Alert me" button dialog, the notification will be in the base language of the site, whatever the language of the user who requested it. There was a time when the notification was in the language of the user at the time, but now only the list name in the notification is in the user's language. However, your notification looks different from the one I get with the "Alert me" button dialog. How did you set up this notification?
I recognize that notification format you are using. It's the "Automate" rule, and its language setting was done incorrectly by Microsoft. Long story short, it uses the "Locale" in the regional setting of the site, not the "Language" in the language settings, and it ignores the setting that tells it to let the user's locale override the site's locale.
That is going against the definition of what regional settings and locales mean in all other Microsoft products, where the regional settings only affect only the formatting of dates and numbers, and language is determined by, you guessed it, the language settings.
You set that by going to regional settings in Site settings and selecting a locale for the site.