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I downloaded intellij idea from their website and whilst installation out of nowhere I got instructions in a language other than english. The same language was reflected in my netbeans IDE, one of my reasons to switch to Intellij. The language seems to be inscrutable. I tried several trial and errors, but no result.

Since the UI is similar to android studio, and I have android studio, I tried to locate any language settings within android studio but couldn't get any. How did this happen? How can I get rid of this and be back to english?

Any help is widely appreciated..

The screenshot

EDIT : My Environment variables

My Environment Variables

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  • I think you should reinstall Java. It's a locale issue there – OneCricketeer Jun 11 '17 at 04:17
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    Check your operating system's language settings before you reinstall Java. – Dawood ibn Kareem Jun 11 '17 at 04:26
  • *I had issues with Netbeans and the language settings, so instead of trying to figure out that problem I decided to instead install IntelliJ and have the same problem," Doesn't make a lot of sense. *I have a problem. Don't make an effort to figure out why; just try randomly adding other software and hope the issue goes away* is seldom a good path. – Ken White Jun 11 '17 at 04:38
  • @DawoodibnKareem I'm using win 10, I tried changing language settings, but no effect. – mrLovaLova Jun 11 '17 at 05:25
  • @KenWhite I said it's one of my reasons, not the reason per se. – mrLovaLova Jun 11 '17 at 05:26
  • In that case, reinstalling Java would be a good thing to try next. – Dawood ibn Kareem Jun 11 '17 at 05:33
  • @DawoodibnKareem Had there been a problem with Java, wouldn't it affect Android Studio too? My Android Studio is perfect.. – mrLovaLova Jun 11 '17 at 05:58
  • Maybe or maybe not. It's possible that you already have multiple installations of Java on your computer; and not all your IDEs are using the same one. – Dawood ibn Kareem Jun 11 '17 at 06:00
  • Assuming this is Intellij IDEA and Windows (and even if not, this is true for many other OS/IDE combinations), I doubt reinstalling Java would fix it. The IDE ships with its own custom JRE. The only way it could matter is if you had set a specific environment variable directing the IDE to use a different one. Now an environment variable for language that both Java runtimes use? That's a definite thing to look for. – JoeHz Jun 11 '17 at 06:09
  • @JoeHz added screenshot. Yes, it has shipped it's own JRE versions. – mrLovaLova Jun 11 '17 at 06:27
  • It is maybe not the language but a font issue. – Henry Jun 11 '17 at 06:31
  • @Henry I tried to change it, but no result. The problem is even if I type in english, it is converted and shown in gibberish.. – mrLovaLova Jun 11 '17 at 06:47
  • @Henry interesting observation. I happen to have encountered this just after installing many fonts on Win 7. Not sure how to debug this. Any idea ? – Raja Khoury May 31 '19 at 18:16

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Had the exact same problem (with Android studio) while my default windows 10 fonts were set to Nunito instead Segoe UI. After I revereted to Segoe UI everything works nice.

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