how to change Microsoft Edge UI to a different Language by GPO or Registry

Question

Hi

I have a problem with a app that show the date in a wrong format it show it in the US format that is MM/DD/YYYY and for what I need it need to show the date as DD/MM/YYYY

now I have look and all the info I can find as for Registry or GPO has no effect as it do change the Language if I go to the setting but it will not load the Edge UI in that Language and in order to fix this problem as for what I have found the only way will be to load Edge UI as En-UK and only then it will show the date as I need it but I can't find any way to make this change outside of Edge.

And I need to do it as this is for Citrix environment so I can't login to every user and change there setting this must be made from GPO/ Registry/ Or change files in the user profile.

From what I know in order for the Microsoft Edge UI to change to a a different language the language must be installed first in Microsoft Edge the question is how can I do that with group policy or registry key.

After the language is installed there is a key that's supposed to enable this language in edge

as you can see here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#applicationlocalevalue

ApplicationLocaleValue

but this will not work if the language pack is not installed in Microsoft Edge

Answer 1

Hi @Tamirb ,

Based on my test, it is not necessary to install the language pack when you configure the ApplicationLocaleValue policy through GPO/REG key.

You could follow the steps below to check if it works for you.

• Enable "Set application locale " policy. I have set the value to "ja" for testing. And then Click "OK".
• Restart your Edge browser.the result as follows:
  

You could go to "edge://policy" to check if the policy is successfully applied.

Please note that there is no Japanese installed when checking "edge://settings/languages".

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Answer 2

Ok

I have found the solution to my problem in the end it wasn't the needs to add the language in edge because I use the edge in explorer mode so This is why this has no impact at all and the only key I needed to change was this key

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International]

"AcceptLanguage"="he,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3"

This key sets the default language for Internet Explorer and it set it to Hebrew and therefore the dates is in the way I needed to be. DD/MM/YYYY

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now as for my original query this is the solution As for registry key

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]

"ApplicationLocaleValue"="en-GB" (this set the UI to Eng UK)

"DefinePreferredLanguages"="en-GB,en-US" (This add support for Language for the web page)