Word automatically changes straight quotation marks ( ' or ' ) to curly quotation marks ( “ or ” ) as you type. You might not want curly quotation marks in some cases — for example, if you use them to designate feet and inches.
Visual Studio Code ships by default with English as the display language and other languages rely on Language Pack extensions available from the Marketplace.
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VS Code detects the operating system's UI language and will prompt you to install the appropriate Language Pack, if available on the Marketplace. Below is an example recommending a Simplified Chinese Language Pack:
After installing the Language Pack extension and following the prompt to restart, VS Code will use the Language Pack matching your operating system's UI language.
Changing the Display Language
You can also override the default UI language by explicitly setting the VS Code display language using the Configure Display Language command.
Press ⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P) to bring up the Command Palette then start typing 'display' to filter and display the Configure Display Language command.
Press Enter and a list of installed languages by locale is displayed, with the current locale highlighted.
Use the 'Install additional languages...' option to install more Language Packs from the Marketplace, or select a different locale from the list. Changing the locale requires a restart of VS Code. You will be prompted to restart when you select a locale.
The Configure Display Language command creates a locale.json file in your user VS Code folder. Depending on your platform, the locale.json file is located here:
- Windows
%APPDATA%CodeUserlocale.json - macOS
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/locale.json - Linux
$HOME/.config/Code/User/locale.json
The locale can also be changed by editing this file and restarting VS Code.
Available locales
| Display Language | Locale |
|---|---|
| English (US) | en |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-CN |
| Traditional Chinese | zh-TW |
| French | fr |
| German | de |
| Italian | it |
| Spanish | es |
| Japanese | ja |
| Korean | ko |
| Russian | ru |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br |
| Turkish | tr |
Marketplace Language Packs
As described above, VS Code ships with English as the default display language, but other languages are available through Marketplace Language Packs.
You can search for Language Packs in the Extensions view (⇧⌘X (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+X)) by typing the language you are looking for along with category:'Language Packs'.
You can have multiple Language Packs installed and select the current display language with the Configure Display Language command.
Setting the Language
If you want to use a specific language for a VS Code session, you can use the command-line switch --locale to specify a locale when you launch VS Code.
Below is an example of using the --locale command-line switch to set the VS Code display language to French:
Note: You must have the appropriate Language Pack installed for the language you specify with the command-line switch. If the matching Language Pack is not installed, VS Code will display English.
Common questions
Unable to write to file because the file is dirty
This notification may mean that your locale.json file wasn't saved after a previous change. Make sure the file is saved and try to install the Language Pack again.
I have Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP 3 English version
I have installed the required input methods in Regional and Language Settings and as far as I know all the other options provided there regarding multiple languages. I can also type in Korean characters (as well as other Asian characters) in notepad, word, etc and view those characters in the browser as well
However, when I try to view C++ code in Visual Studio (that I copied in from another computer), or open the cpp file in notepad or notepad++, the Korean characters look like this:// Ç¥ÁØ »ý¼ºÀÚÀÔ´Ï´Ù.
when they should be looking like this:// 표준 생성자입니다.
I got the above Korean characters by opening the same cpp file in Word, using the following options when word starts up:
which shows that entire information about the actual characters is still present inside the cpp file, but for some reason the text editors are not able to display them properly.
Even worse is, I am having to work in a Korean version of VS2003 installed in this computer, and while most of the menu items display properly in Korean, many of them just appear as ????????????? (i.e., as strings of question marks). This includes error messages in dialogue boxes as well as some text in places like the resources explorer.
What should I install or update in my computer so that all the English as well as Asian characters show up properly?
3 Answers
Windows XP has the option of installing the additional East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language packets in Regional Preferences > Idioms. More information here.
You need to have the original installation disk however. Besides the appropriate fonts, it also installs a sort of IME.
As MSalters states, keyboard layouts do not have relation to what characters you are able to see on Windows.
Doktoro Reichard
Doktoro Reichard
Input methods are unrelated to output. You clearly have an output problem.
The next issue is that you need 'Fonts'. A font describes how to draw characters. For instance, it probably includes a shape for character 64 that looks like A and another shaped numbered 65 that looks like B. But many fonts do not include a 표 shape.
You'd need at least a fixed-width and a variable-width font for Korean. Windows will try some font substitutions, but fixed-width and variable-width fonts can't be substituted for each other. Seeing Korean in some but not all places suggests a font is missing. In particular, Visual Studio uses a fixed-width font for code.
As for saving .cpp files, just use UTF-8 with BOM. I think even Notepad understands that.
MSaltersMSaltersI've had problems with Asian games that required changing the locale to the proper country. There was a program called App Locale that occasionally solved the issue at the app level, but for system wide changes (like garbage text in ID3 tags) I think you'll need to change to locale to Korea.
You can then save the files in a more common format.
You can also try running your text editor in App Locale.
Louis
Louis