# Can't change "default locale"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384 "2017-09-05T09:34:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/1 "2017-09-05T09:34:02Z")
Changing the `default locale` setting currently does nothing, as it does not save. Tested on Meta and Try.
- Change language
- Hit save
- Refresh page: Language is still English (or, I’m assuming, whatever was the default language before this regression)
**Edit:** hmmm, seems it’s not quite as simple as I described it because language got changed on Meta now, but in settings it says it’s still English… I can change it to any language except English, because the interface insists that this is the current language in use.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/2 "2017-09-05T11:07:00Z")
Probably either @j.jaffeux (select changes) or @tgxworld (Rails 5.1 changes)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/3 "2017-09-05T11:09:59Z")
It’s not using the new select and I tried on the 5.1 branch and couldn’t reproduce with my local setup, will need more investigation.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/4 "2017-09-05T11:11:13Z")
Then you will need to check with @tgxworld
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### Author:  [@matteocontrini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/matteocontrini)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/5 "2017-09-06T09:38:45Z")
I’ve just installed Discourse and I’m having the same issue
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/6 "2017-09-12T11:57:42Z")
@erlend_sh Can you try again? It is fixed in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/07bfe3d053814c5691652a5eda9142a86968d510](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/07bfe3d053814c5691652a5eda9142a86968d510)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/10 "2017-09-12T12:08:08Z")
Seems fine now! Language is changed immediately upon refresh and the language selector does not get stuck on the previous default locale.
For some reason I had to do a “Empty cache and hard reload” to get the new locale to kick in in incognito mode, but that’s probably just a Chrome quirk.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-change-default-locale/69384/11 "2017-09-14T10:00:02Z")
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