How to change UI language in Visual Studio Code?

Question

How to change UI language in Visual Studio Code (1.0 released April 2016)?

Answer 1

1. Open VS Code palette. Mac: ⌘+⇧+p, Windows: ctrl+⇧+p
2. Type: Display
3. Select: Configure Display Language
4. Choose the desired language

Answer 2

• Open VScode
• Press F1 and type 'display'
• Choose 'Configure display language'
• Select your language. On top are installed languages, below are other languages. The one you select will be installed as an extension.
• Accept to restart.
• you can see that the language you choose has been added to the extensions by selecting 'extension' icon on the left toolbar (look for 'xxx language Pack')

More info Here

Previous original answer (for older vscode):

• Open VSCode
• Press F1 and type 'language'
• Choose "Configure language" in the menu
• Change the 'locale' value. See 'here' for available languages.

Example: "locale":"en-US"

• Save
• Restart vscode

Answer 3

As a Ubuntu user, the only option that seemed available to me was to start Visual Studio Code at the command line, explicitly specifying the language:

code --locale en

(The interface had been in French, due to the language I'd applied for my operating system. I'm trying to learn French, but having VSCode in French was a bit much, I still need to earn money writing software 😛)

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/locales

Answer 4

See "Display Language" https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/locales

I had trouble with this and the answer from Eric Bole-Feysot did not help as it is missing an important step.

1. Open VS Code
2. Press F1
3. Type "configure display language"
4. Select "configure display language" from the options displayed beneath the inputbox
5. Change JSON to

"locale": "en-US"

6. Close window and be prompted to save.
7. Re-start VS code

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

1. Preferences->Extension
2. search "LanguageName Language Pack"
   (example) "English Language Pack"
3. Install

Answer 6

For mac OS user: At $home/Library/Application Support/Code/User, create a new file with name "locale.json" (it wasn't there for me), and type:

{
  "locale": "en-US"
}

Worked for me. The latter part is the same to others' answer I guess, just there wasn't "locale.json" for me so I tried creating it myself, found it worked.

Answer 7

For Windows user,

Go to following folder, C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Code\User

Edit locale.json or create it, if not exist with following content

{
 "locale":"en"
}

Supported locales can be found in the following links https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=761051

Cheers

Answer 8

In Visual Studio Community for Mac 7.0 go to

Settings->Visual Style->User Interface Language

Answer 9

Please refer to VSCode Display Language.

1. Change language for temporary folder

click: File->Preferences->Settings, User seting json file will open and add " "locale"="en" ", save the file and restart. Or you can use a command: >>> code . --locale=[lang] (lang refer to language code)

2. Permanently change language

Press Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette then start typing "config" to filter and display the Configure Language command. Add " "locale"="en" " into the Jason file, save and restart

Answer 10

Since my Chinese (or whatever language this is in your screenshot) is pretty bad I describe how to set the display language to american English without using VSCode.

• Close VSCode

• Open the file locale.json with a text editor (I suggest not to use VSCode).

  On Windows the file is located under C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Code\User

  On Linux it's under $HOME/.config/Code/User

  On a Mac it's under $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User

• Change the file content to

  {
       "locale":"en-US"
  }
  

• Open VSCode again