# Interface language selection
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/interface-language-selection/74952
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 28, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interface-language-selection/74952 "2017-11-28T15:47:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interface-language-selection/74952/1 "2017-11-28T15:47:31Z")
Hi, I think it would be nice if the interface language selector had more than the two letter shorthand. But, in each language, the name of each language. “Español”, “Le français”, etc.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interface-language-selection/74952/2 "2017-11-28T15:57:35Z")
Hmm that’s weird. We show full language names in the admin settings, but not in user preferences. Maybe it’s a regression.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interface-language-selection/74952/3 "2017-11-28T16:00:51Z")
Not a regression, this has come up before ~~but I can’t find the topic~~ …
Topic:
> [@Is there any way to let language selector display 'English' instead of 'en'?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/6):
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> This is now complete in the admin section. Per: If admins enables user locales then we don’t get it cry However user locale selection is kind of rare, #pr-welcome to make the user selector consistent with admin.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interface-language-selection/74952/4 "2017-11-28T16:10:15Z")
Duplicate: [Is there any way to let language selector display 'English' instead of 'en'? - #6 by sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/6)