Windows 10 Cannot Change Language
Silke Kawaiaea
In most cases, the reason why you are not allowed to change the system language is that you are using the Windows 11/10 Home Single Language edition, which is usually preinstalled by PC manufacturers.
Installed 17744 English. To many that is fine, but there is immediately an error on load "Something happened and we couldn't install a feature". Tapping the alert takes you to the English Language Options (English UK) "Basic Typing", "Handwriting" and "Speech" all of which fail to download (Error 0x800F0950). Internet options set as well as WinHTTP to use my proxy and updates work fine.
Plus. I cannot change the Windows Display Language from English US to English UK as there is no option to do so (anywhere!). It says English UK is installed and the default App language, but it is not listed as a Display Language. I tried installing another language - same thing happens. Lpksetup with Windows 2016 and Windows 10 Build 1808 Language Interface Packs do not work either.
Hi! I'm just concerned about changing the system language of my laptop since I changed everything in the Settings > Language sections part of the system and changed everything that I see to English. But there are still some icons and my system still sees Chinese as the default as is seen in when I type lpksetup in CTRL + R. It says I can't remove Chinese because it's the main system language of my laptop. Is there any fix to changing that? It's kinda irritating to see some in English, and some in Chinese when I can't even speak Chinese. Thank you!
I had a concern about the language settings. I was changing my language settings and it asked me to sign out so that the language could be downloaded so I do so and now it won't let me sign back in it just continues to reset to a default account I've lost all of the information on my computer and I don't know how to get it back to normal.
@LuckyHuntr
Hi,
Even if you change the display language, some text in menus and dialog boxes for some programs might not be in the language that you want. This happens because the program might not support Unicode.
Follow the steps below to change the system locale:
Click Start
Type Control Panel in search bar and click on it
Click Region and Language
Click Administrative tab
Click Change system locale tab (If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation)
From drop down menu, check and make sure the language is selected as you require and click OK
Restart computer and check.
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In case you are using Windows 10 Single Language, you couldn't change it, but if it is NOT single language, you may download language pack , go to Settings->Time & Language->Language and you could add English and set it as your Windows Display Language and then restart your PC.
That's the only option in the preferred language, yet it baffles me to see that Chinese is still my system language. I also don't see any option to make English as my Windows Display Language. And yes, I'm in Windows 10 Pro. But yeah, any solutions to that? Thanks!
I checked and it's Simplified Chinese. Kinda a bit of a hassle considering I don't really read into Chinese that much. But yeah, I'll consider reinstalling if there aren't any more options available. Thanks for the help!
Because I have noticed that on some computers the Windows display language not changing at all, or doesn't change in some menus, I decided to write some instructions for resolving these issues. Therefore, if you can not change the display language in Windows 10, or if you experience that the language in some parts of Windows 10 (such as the "Settings" menu), is different than the selected language in 'Windows display language" option, continue reading below.
The common reason for the "Windows 10 Display Language Not Changing" issue, is that the language pack for the desired display language is not installed. To install the language pack for the preferred display language:
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I am using evernote for English and German content. My Windows operating system primary language is German. Since Evernote 10 it seems that only the system language is considered for spell checking. Now all English text are marked with the red line. For me it is not an option always to change the system language. Could you please bring back the multi-language spelling check option.
Same here, it is pretty ridiculous that checking spelling of multiple languages seems not possible anymore without changing the system language. Please re-introduce this asap, because the current way of handling this is clearly a downgrade compared with version 6 of Evernote.
First off all, I discovered that when I set the 'Windows Display Language' to my native language (Dutch) that then Evernote seem to support spelling check for 2 languages.
That is both errors detection as well as suggestions. Both languages may be used in the same note/line while the check still works.
However, when I switch the 'Windows Display Language' to English, which is my personal preference, then Evernote only support the English spell check.
And as far as I know Evernote does not give any setting to enable/add a second language.
Gladly I've found a work-around to get a second language working (next to English) while the 'Windows Display Language' is English.
Namely I noticed that Evernote uses the bdic-fileformat as dictionary files. This type of dictionary files are also used by other programs like Chrome and Microsoft Teams.
While searching my PC's HDD for bdic-files I found two bdic-files in my native language:
Can someone from Evernote please turn this into a high-priority bug fix? I am working wth three languages and the ability to switch languages for spell checking on a note-by-note basis is absolutely essential. I must say I am very surprised that I am getting a notification to update Evernote to a version that doesn't support working in several languages.
Same issue here. Completely ridiculous, Evernote is now unusable for me. I will wait some days if they resolve this, if not, I will migrate to OneNote and cancel my Evernote subscription as I rely on a note-taking app in my workflow.
Same problem here... I regularly write in English, Dutch and French. And I mean, daily! So please fix this problem because the only work-around I now have is to write my notes in Word (with multi language spelling control! ) and then copy it to Evernote. But I then have to adjust the layout again in Evernote, which is super annoying because Evernote is supposed to help us gain time. As somebody else also already said in another comment here; if this doesn't get solved I will move to OneNote!
I have the same problem you all, my version is the last 10.3.7, the darkmode is very attractive but the spell check is very annoying, I have notes in English and Portuguese, and some French and Polish vocabulary lists, all words have some red underline...
So I can't use the windows version anymore, I think it's an easy fix for them.
Now I use the web version, is not that great, but has no spell check.
It is really sad that Evernote stil doesn't support multilanguage support! I really mis this feature. It starts bothering me more and more. A lot of people used it and want to use it again. Does Evernote even plan to reintroduce multi language support? I mean it's common functionality that is available in many apps (e.g. chrome or Word of OneNote)
The spell check is still broken (german user). Nearly everything marked red, no option to turn off or to learn words into the dictionary. No idea, what the product manager is talking about when quoting this as a resolved issue. I cannot understand why Evernote is not capable of handling spell checking in a professional and paid (!) product. Cannot remember another software product with problems on this.
I have the same problem, as I use both Polish and English for my notes. Also, due to the fact, that the ability to change shortcuts seems to be missing (or is hidden in some remote part of the GUI), I'm unable to easily write some letters unique to Polish alphabet (like "ś", for instance).
New evernote installed itself in the system language (Japanese). I don't want that. I want English as the UI language. Have uninstalled Evernote and am using the legacy version. If not resolved, I will abandon Evernote and switch to something else. Have been a user for nearly 10 years and have 10,000+ notes. Not a decision I make lightly.
Hi. This is a -mainly- user-supported Forum and if you check every one of the thousands of threads here, you'll find that developers have never commented on work in progress. Some of us users try to give what support we can, but you can imagine it's been a little busy around here recently!
On the main point of this thread - the launch version of EN10 in all operating systems was a stripped-down shell intended to volume test the new backroom systems for bugs that would not / could not have been found in normal beta tests of maybe a few thousand users. Evernote runs 250M accounts (probably a little less after the last few weeks...) so normal levels of system traffic could not be tested without just going ahead and doing it.
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