# Initial locale setting now available

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/initial-locale-setting-now-available/25034>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** translation\
**Created:** [9 Fevereiro , 2015 19:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/initial-locale-setting-now-available/25034 "2015-02-09T19:26:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [9 Fevereiro , 2015 19:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/initial-locale-setting-now-available/25034/1 "2015-02-09T19:26:56Z")

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In a sentence: **New Docker installs will now have the option to set the language at bootstrap time**.

This has been a pain point for a while: the FAQ, Terms of Service, and Privacy policy would get set up with the wrong language. See this topic from July of last year:

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-non-english-installs/18077](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-non-english-installs/18077)

Here’s one of the support topics that came up: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-lang-ru-ru-utf-8-in-app-yml-does-not-work-when-bootstrapping-docker-container/22726](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-lang-ru-ru-utf-8-in-app-yml-does-not-work-when-bootstrapping-docker-container/22726)

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You can do this by setting the `DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE` environment variable in `app.yml`. **Note that this will make it impossible to change the locale from the web UI.**

Here’s an example of an `app.yml` with language settings set.

```yml
params:
  db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.french"
  ## Set db_shared_buffers to 1/3 of the memory you wish to allocate to postgres
  ## on 1GB install set to 128MB on a 4GB instance you may raise to 1GB
  #db_shared_buffers: "256MB"
  #
  ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed)
  # version: tests-passed
 env:
  LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
  DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: fr

```

This will be available in latest right now, beta **v1.2.0.beta7** , stable **v1.2.0**.

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