This post shows students and new users how to change or set Windows 11 System Locale to control programs that do not meet Unicode character-encoding standards.
Unicode is a worldwide character-encoding standard. The system uses Unicode exclusively for character and string manipulation. However, some programs do not support Unicode, and these programs won’t be able to use Windows standards.
You’ll have to manually configure System Locale in Windows 11 for these programs; this post shows you how to do that.
Unlike System language display text, changing the system locale will not affect the language text in the menus, dialog boxes, or Unicode programs.
This only changes the programs that do not support the Unicode standard and will affect all user’s accounts on the computer.
To get started with configuring the System Locale settings in Windows 11, follow the steps below:
How to set System Locale settings in Windows 11
The System Locale is the default ANSI, OEM, MAC, and EBCDIC code pages for non-Unicode programs and uses this setting of a program incorrectly set Unicode specifications.
Windows 11 has a centralized location for the majority of its settings. Everything can be done, from system configurations to creating new users and updating Windows from its System Settings pane.
To get to System Settings, you can use the Windows key + I shortcut or click on Start ==> Settings, as shown in the image below:
Alternatively, you can use the search box on the taskbar and search for Settings. Then select to open it.
Windows Settings pane should look similar to the image below. In Windows Settings, click Time & Language, and select Language & Region on the right pane of your screen, as shown in the image below.
On the Language & Region settings pane, scroll down on the page. Under Related settings, click the link for Administrative language settings as highlighted below.
This will take you to the Region settings pane under Administrative. Next, click the Change system locale. The button is highlighted below.
Next, select the Language you want for the system locale from the list, then click OK to apply your changes. This change will affect all user accounts on the computer.
Check the BETA: Use Unicode UTF-8 for the worldwide language support box.
You’ll be prompted to restart your computer.
The language you selected for the system locale will also be automatically chosen in Windows 11 for the system language.
That should do it!
Conclusion:
This post showed you how to change or set Windows System locale settings in Windows 11. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.
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