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Issue with default Edge lanaguage
Josh_Carpenter Thank you for the info! I'll bring this back to the team and let you know if they have any insights, or can at least confirm if this is part of the known issue.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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(UPDATED with more info.)
Josh_Carpenter Thanks for your patience. The team wanted me to pass along the following info. If this still doesn't address the issue, let me know!1) Did you download MSFT Edge from our website, or did you receive it via a Windows update?
2) It's possible that your admin policy is setting all the PCs to English (United States) not installing the language pack English (United Kingdom). If the language pack was installed and set by company policy, Microsoft Edge should pick up en-gb as the default accept-language and UI language.
3) You can "fix" this in a couple of ways:
- A. Install a version of Windows that has the new MSFT Edge inbox with en-GB as the OS display language
- B. Re-download the new MSFT Edge, making sure that en-GB is the top preferred language in the browser used to download it
- C. Go into edge://settings/languages and manually change the display language
- D. Use Policy to force MSFT Edge to use en-GB as the display language. This will prevent individual users from modifying the display language settings
Hopefully that helps!
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeleted
Can you please provide more information on which policies need to be configured. As this would be the ideal fix for this issue.
We are getting the same thing with some websites using US date format rather than the EN-AU format. This causes massive issues with reporting as our end of financial year is 01/07, so it becomes impossible to tell which financial year something should be in.... e.g. 07/06 7th of June or 06/07 6th of June. En-Au is set as the default language pack in settings.
Unfortunately there is no option to configure the edge language preference when using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to download and create an application for deployment.
Since there is no En-Au media for Win10 only En-US and En-GB, using a different base media won't resolve the issue.MartinSmith Thanks for the detailed response. Our language team wasn't familiar with the "Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager," so can you please provide more context around that and how you're using it? We want to understand your use case so that we can troubleshoot appropriately.
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge