How can I change the language to english in Oracle SQL Developer

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I am running a non-english Windows 7 system  and apparently Oracle SQL Developer  version 3 0 04 34  64-bit  tries to auto-guess my preferred language based on the OS  Is there any way to change the language to english   I ve tried the tip found at http   misteratmisis com infotech how-change-oracle-sql-developer-interface-japanese-english  namely adding the VM options   AddVMOption -Duser language en AddVMOption -Duser country US   to file ide conf in directory    ide bin   within the SQL Developer installation directory  as suggested  but that didn t help   Solution  edited on 13 09 2012    I decided to try again the solution proposed by Alex K  and this time it worked  namely adding  AddVMOption  -Duser language en   to the file sqldeveloper conf file located in sqldeveloper bin  folder  I presume that it did work now but not before  because meanwhile I have changed my UAC  user access control  settings in Windows 7 so that I am administrator by default  What happened before was probably that even though the changes appeared to be there  the configuration file read by the program was another one  shadow copy    Solution for Mac OS X  added on 26 02 2016    Edit file at   Applications SQLDeveloper app Contents Resources sqldeveloper sqldeveloper bin sqldeveloper conf   and add the line  AddVMOption  -Duser language en    Tested with SQL Developer 4 1 3 20

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On MAC High Sierra  10 13 6   cd  Users vkrishna  sqldeveloper 18 2 0  nano product conf   on the last line add  AddVMOption -Duser language en   Save the file and restart                                            If you are using standalone Oracle Data Modeller  find    -name  datamodeler conf    and edit this file  cd  Users vkrishna  Desktop OracleDataModeler-18 2 0 179 0756 app Contents Resources datamodeler datamodeler bin    Add somewhere in the last   AddVMOption -Duser language en   save and restart  done

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Or use the menu  Tools- Preferences- Database- NLS and change language and territory

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Before installation use the Control Panel Region and Language Preferences tool to change everything  Format  Keyboard default input  language for non Unicode programs  to English   Revert to the original selections after the installation

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With SQL Developer 4 x  the language option is to be added to    sqldeveloper bin sqldeveloper conf  rather than    sqldeveloper bin ide conf     ----- MODIFICATION BEGIN ----- AddVMOption -Duser language en   ----- MODIFICATION END -----

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Try to set user language and user country properties in sqldeveloper conf file located in sqldeveloper bin folder   APPDATA  sqldeveloper  lt version gt  product conf for more recent versions    Sample for set french language   IncludeConfFile       ide bin ide conf  SetJavaHome D  jdk1 6 0 25  AddVMOption  -Doracle ide util AddinPolicyUtils OVERRIDE FLAG true  AddVMOption -Dsun java2d ddoffscreen false  AddVMOption -Dwindows shell font languages  AddVMOption -Duser language fr AddVMOption -Duser country FR AddVMOption  -XX MaxPermSize 128M  AddVMOption -Doracle jdbc mapDateToTimestamp false   IncludeConfFile  sqldeveloper-nondebug conf   To switch off language try to remove its support by editing oracle translated locales  option in ide boot file  located in ide bin folder   For example  if I want to  break  french language support this option will be   oracle translated locales   de es it ja ko pt BR zh CN zh TW   The original value was   oracle translated locales   de fr es it ja ko pt BR zh CN zh TW   The configuration above  sqldeveloper conf file  will be wrong after remove french support and the french language does not appear as GUI localization

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You can also configure directly on the file   sqldeveloper ide bin ide conf   Just add the JVM Option      AddVMOption  -Duser language en   The file will be like this

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You can also set language at runtime  sqldeveloper exe --AddVMOption -Duser language en   to avoid editing sqldeveloper conf every time you install new version

[configuration] How can I change the language (to english) in Oracle SQL Developer?

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