UI language settting

[philxing1967]

Question: How to change the UI language setting? 

Hello everyone, I am new to Eagle and board design, and I have had a hard time to read the simplified Chinese because I am a Traditional Chinese user, English is even better to me than the simplified Chinese because the different terms of translation.

The language setting of my Windows is Traditional Chinese, does this mean no TC support for Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau?

No language setting for UI is a very rare design to me.

[jorge_garcia · Accepted solution]

Hello Philxing1967,

I hope you're having a good day, thank you for participating. EAGLE currently doesn't have a Traditional Chinese interface, if English is better for you than you can tell EAGLE to use English. Chapter 2 section 4 of the EAGLE manual covers how to setup EAGLE to use a language different from what the computer is set to.

Please accept as solution if my post fully resolves or you issue, or reply with additional details if the problem persists.

Best Regards,

[luciano.neves]

Hi Jorge!

I'm trying to change the language myself, but since I don't speak the language on which my operating system is set very well, it is hard to follow the steps to change the language.

Could you perhaps assist with some steps or screenshots on how I can change the language from German to English?

Many thanks!

Luciano

[huayuliang]

Change the file eagle_zh.qm to other name, or delete this file if you decide never use it agian.

[jorge_garcia]

Hi Luciano,

I hope you're doing well. Huayuliang has the simplest solution. In your case, you would go into the eagle installation directory and delete the eagle_de.qm file.

Thanks Huayuliang for the great idea. I never thought of doing that before, it's a lot easier than messing with the regional settings on the computer or using a bat file.

Best Regards,

[luciano.neves]

Thanks for the help Huayuliang, that worked like a charm 🙂

Thanks for checking Jorge 🙂 

Cheers

[ibai.sarria]

Hi all,

I am trying to set Eagle in English in a German Windows (though I believe this can translate to any other language combination).

I have just updated to Eagle 8.4.1 and it is in German (funny enough this did not happened with 8.4.0).

Previously mentioned method of disabling the "eagle_de.qm" file only affects some of the translations.

So changing the system language variable or creating a batch file is the only full valid method.

This is quite annoying to do with every update, wouldn't be much easier to put a language droplist in Eagle?

Just my two cents.

Thanks anyway to Huayuliang and Jorge for the current solutions.

[Anonymous]

I had exactly the same problem. Is it possible that Autodesk let the users choose the language during the installation in next update? Just like Fusion 360 did.  This is really really  inconvenient. Or just set the default into English. Tks.

[ibai.sarria]

I keep changing my bat file everytime I update Eagle
#facepalm 😉

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

For users struggling with this as well:

The user manual is in your installation folder in the "doc" subfolder, for me it's "C:\EAGLE 9.3.0\doc\manual_en.pdf". It's in chapter 2.5 and says that you can trick Eagle by setting the environment variable of your OS to another language specifically for Eagle - hell yeah!

Running batch files or deleting files as the regular solution to change a language should definitely be solved within the next few versions 😮

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

GOOD JOB!

i have same problem just like philxing1967. fix it need one environment variable only: 'LANG=en_US'

[JanBielawski]

Great solution. Works perfect. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Hello  everybody .

I found the bath file script in the manual is false.

the correct script is :

SET LANG=en_GB
cd C:\Program files\eagle-7.x.x\bin
start eagle.exe

Regards

[Anonymous]

easy way and excellent work. thank you.