{"id":95025,"date":"2016-12-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=95025"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:35:15","slug":"20161227-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20161227-00\/?p=95025","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t I get properly translated program output after installing the corresponding language pack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A customer reported that they installed the Portuguese (Portugal) language pack, but even after rebooting, the ipconfig<\/code> command still printed results in English. Same problem occurs with Turkish. But German is fine. What’s going on? <\/p>\n

There are multiple levels of localization. This page<\/a> has some nice diagrams<\/a> which illustrate them. <\/p>\n

I’ve reproduced the diagrams below (in case the original link stops working). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n
Fully Localized Language Pack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
German 100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language-Neutral OS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Partially Localized Language Pack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
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Arabic 80%<\/td>\n<\/td>\nFrench 20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language-Neutral OS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Language Interface Pack (LIP)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n
Bosnian (Latin) 20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nBase language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Serbian-Latin 80%<\/td>\n<\/td>\nEnglish 20%<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPartially Localized
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Language-Neutral OS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Language Interface Pack (LIP)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
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Catalan 20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nParent language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
French 100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language-Neutral OS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What’s going on is that Portuguese (Portugal) and Turkish are in the second case: A partially-localized language pack. In particular, console applications and PowerShell Console UI are not localized and fall back to English. <\/p>\n

This also explains why German doesn’t have the same problem: German is a fully-localized language, including console applications and PowerShell Console UI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s localization and there’s localization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-95025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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