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I have just installed VLC on my new computer, it has always worked very well before but this time it decided I wanted a Swedish installation. Why?
I live in Sweden but I hate Swedish interfaced programs and I'm not accepting a Swedish VLC. I can't understand why it installed as a Swedish version, I don't have a single Swedish program on this computer and all the other computers have English VLCs...

Please don't tell me this is a new "intelligent feature" because it sucks!
This is the same thing as Hotmail speaking italian whenever I'm in italy, why the f**k does hotmail think everybody speaks the language in the country they're in?

Thanks

It's in the preferences / interface / general.

On a side note, if you want your program to speak English tell your OS that you want English. I don't know how it work on windows. Maybe in the regionnal settings or something like that. Because smart software asks the OS and in your case the OS answered " MaZ likes Swedish" and obiously it was wrong.

hth

Inställningar -> Egenskaper -> Interface -> General.
Click "Avancerade Inställningar"
Change "Språk" to "Amerikansk Engelska" or "Brittisk Engelska", whateber you fancy
Press "Spara" and you're done, restart VLC.

Thanks GeezusGuest.

xtophe: The only place I have asked for Swedish in the keyboad layout and that is kinda important...

Thanks alot. Your tip helped me as well.

I had a similar problem due to
english keyboard -> english keyboard settings
using japanese applications -> non-unicode setting on japanese
needing euro sign and some other stuff in german format -> rest of regional settings on german

Freaked VLC out, showing menues in a german/japanese mix and actually NOT showing about 75% of the elements

I tried the (empty non-descript) drop down menu at the point you described, and voila us english ^^

Isn't it annoying how we swedes can't find our way around a swedish interface? I hate it too... I used this info to change back to english. Tx!

Thanks. I had been living with a blank interface for the last year on my Japanese keyboard with English language settings. Now works great. Bit dificult finding the settings at first though.

vlc installed itself turkish and because it is not completely translated i cannot switch it to english.. i think the translators (my lovely countrymen) just left the difficult options blank.. can anyone help me to "re-anglicise" vlc.. ty..

Use this command line:
vlc.exe --language=en

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