# Changing forum locale via URL param

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-forum-locale-via-url-param/77739>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** multi-lingual\
**Created:** [January 11, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-forum-locale-via-url-param/77739 "2018-01-11T10:20:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-forum-locale-via-url-param/77739/2 "2018-01-11T11:34:36Z")

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Isn’t going into the user’s profile and changing their locale sufficiently “obvious and visual”? I don’t think hand-editing URLs to add query params is either of those.

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