How To Change Arabic To English In Windows 7
Argelia Long
The way described does work, I did have all the information in arabic despite the fact the system was with french a language paramaeter. In order to get it in french did change the region first United States, did log off and log on, received information in english. then did repaeated the manipulation, but this time use as region France, log off and and log in again and this time get everything in Franch.
I have exactly same situation. Living in Belgium with languages set in Windows as English first and French second. The widgets page appears in Dutch ! Going through the 'instellingen' (yes, you have to know the dutch for 'settings') temporarily changes the language on the MSN website, but not on the widgets page.
For me this Widgets page is a big fail. I could have a use for the calendar and weather, but the MSN clickbait news are just an annoying distraction, and of course, you can remove all widgets except the news!
@cpsharp I have the same issue. I live in Hungary, I use the system in hungarian. But for some reason, widgets are is some language I'm not even familiar with. Not even the letters... maybe some arabic stuff?
I get that there are workarounds, but this is somethings, that would REALLY need solving very soon, as Win11 is out. This is not a beta build, but the final :D
@ovancantfort It seems the region settings control the widgets language, such as the newsfeed. Though I prefer to keep my region as Japan, but still read the news in English. I wish Windows 11 had an option for this, or had set the widgets language to the display language.
I bought an Acer laptop in Germany and during setup it only offered German, so I was forced to go through setup in German. But once Windows properly started, I went into settings-language and changed it to English in all the places it's possible to do so. After some restarts and then deleting the German language, it should now be fully English. Most things are in English, but not everything. I'd say it's maybe 95% English. For example, if I click restart, the restarting message comes up in German. If I choose to restart in Safe Mode, the entire safe mode experience is in German. Here's a screenshot of another example. I was installing Firefox from the English FF installer. It got an error with the visual C run time dll and the error came up in German. I deliberately showed my language settings in the background and moved the dll error over it so it's clear to see that everything is set to English.
By the way, after having added English as another language, I tried going to Reset PC and went through that process and I was offered English as an initial setup language. Now that gave me more English, perhaps 98% but the install was bad - I couldn't open Settings any more. It would just crash on load. Tons of tips out there on how to fix Settings crashing on Windows 11 but none of them worked. So I was forced to re-install in German and then switch to English which is where I'm at now.
Thanks ze sk, that worked perfectly. I now see in English on restarting and on the welcome screen. I won't know about system errors until one happens, but they're pretty rare anyway. I would vote this as the answer but it seems like you can't vote a comment as the answer.
I had a simular problem. We are a swedish buisness with some empleyees in Germany. So they came to us with their computers and we had to install them in swedish so we could understand what we were doing, and as a last thing to do before handing over the devices was to change the language. But yeah, only like 85% was done and all applications that we installed before language changed had to be re-installed.
What Adiministrative language settings shows? (this should run intl.cpl)
i.e. the "Welcome screen and new user accounts" settings
if all don't say English United States, then check the boxes to copy your current settings
What I'm trying to achieve here is for Microsoft to acknowledge/accept that their process for switching languages is incomplete. There are thousands of threads findable by Google of people reporting this but it's not being fixed. A clean install is hardly a realistic suggestion - it's a big inconvenience, especially if you've gone to the trouble of installing and configuring a lot of applications already.
You can only install in any language when the installation procedure offers you that opportunity. With a full multi-language iso file, that's true. With a manufacturer customized pre-install from a foreign country, that isn't always an option. The initial setup did NOT offer anything other than German. My first attempt involved completing the setup in German, adding English, seeing that it was only 95% English and finding the Reset PC feature and trying again. At THAT point, it DID offer me English (because I'd added it) and following that setup it did give me an English install. The trouble was that the settings would always crash on open. This is also an issue reported thousands of times (google "windows 11 settings crash" and you'll see them all. There are about 5 ways people suggest to fix it, none of them worked.
So I figured a 95% English/5% German installation that was working was better than a 100% English installation that had broken settings so I did my third Windows install in German and added English and removed German to get me to where I am now.
I just want to report it so that maybe one day it'll be fixed. Changing language should change language 100%, otherwise display the option as "change most of the language but not everything - yes/no".
Thanks, but most of those are Windows 10 links. The Windows 11 ones are not really helpful. They just tell me how to do what I already did. I know I could download a full English ISO of Windows 11 and install from that but then I'd not have any of the drivers/tools that came with the laptop from the manufacturer.
I'm really looking for Microsoft to accept that when you change a language, it's not doing it completely. It's missing some key features that are left in the original language. A fix tool and eventual Windows Update that catches them all would be what's needed.
Quick Background: I inherited a large SQL dump file containing a combination of English and Arabic text, and (I think) it was originally exported using 'latin1'. I changed all occurrences of 'latin1' to 'utf8' prior to importing the file. The Arabic text didn't appear correctly in phpMyAdmin (which I guess is normal), but when I loaded the text to a web page with the following, everything looked good and the arabic text displayed perfectly.:
to the 'Windows-1256' equivalent. I didn't think this would be a problem, but when I changed the charset value to 'UTF-8', all the Arabic characters appeared as diamonds with question marks. Shouldn't UTF-8 display Arabic text correctly?
Windows-1256 and UTF-8 are completely different encodings, so data gets all messed up if you declare windows-1256 data as UTF-8 or vice versa. Only ASCII characters, such as English letters, have the same representation in both encodings.
I think you need to go back to square one. It sounds like you have a database dump in Win-1256 encoding and you want to work with it in UTF-8 from now on. It also sounds like you are using PHP but you have lots of irrelevant tags on your question and are missing the most important one, PHP.
First, you need to convert the text dump into UTF-8 and you should be able to do that with PHP. Chances are that your conversion script will have two steps, first read the Win-1256 bytes and decode them into internal Unicode text strings, then encode the Unicode text strings into UTF-8 bytes for output to a new text file.
In order to display Arabic characters correctly, you need to convert your PHP file to utf-8 without Bom.This happened to me, Arabic characters were displayed as diamonds, but conversion to utf-8 without bom will solve this problem.
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