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windows 11 widget language issue
hey there, I just updated to windows 11, and I am facing an issue with widgets, not able to change the lang of it, tried most of the ways to change it but still had no success.
- Just found a solution: Change windows display language and logoff then login, you'll find Widgets in desired language. Note: I had Widgets in Arabic, tried to change language in website to United States (English) but the language only changed for website (which is opened in Edge) then had this thought: Wait, how would changing website language changes an app language. So i changed Region to United States and Tada: Widgets became in English.
ovancantfort I concur. I just installed the official build of Windows 11, and the widgets language setting is not changed despite all above mentioned language settings.
After some more testing, my educated guess is the language settings of the Widgets work as follow:
- you can only get a country-language combination that exists on MSN website. So, for Belgium, I can only get BE-NL (Dutch) or BE-FR (French). English language for example is not possible;
- Country is given by Windows region settings.
- Language is given by Windows display language settings. In my case, this is english. As BE-EN does not exist in MSN, Widgets default to BE-NL.
The crazy thing is that the store language has the same limitations, but uses the first preferred language and not the display language, as explicitly mentioned in the settings. By setting first preferred language to French, I got Belgian store in French language, but the Widgets does not use that.
As I vastly prefer to keep the UI in English, I disabled Widgets for the moment.
Really looks like this feature was rushed...
- you can only get a country-language combination that exists on MSN website. So, for Belgium, I can only get BE-NL (Dutch) or BE-FR (French). English language for example is not possible;
- Country is given by Windows region settings.
- Language is given by Windows display language settings. In my case, this is english. As BE-EN does not exist in MSN, Widgets default to BE-NL.
The crazy thing is that the store language has the same limitations, but uses the first preferred language and not the display language, as explicitly mentioned in the settings. By setting first preferred language to French, I got Belgian store in French language, but the Widgets does not use that.
As I vastly prefer to keep the UI in English, I disabled Widgets for the moment.
Really looks like this feature was rushed...