# Is there any way to let language selector display 'English' instead of 'en'?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4월 7, 2014, 4:39오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518 "2014-04-07T04:39:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@shiningdracon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiningdracon)
#### Post date: [4월 7, 2014, 4:39오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/1 "2014-04-07T04:39:19Z")
I’d like to have the language selector be more human readable, any ideas?
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [4월 7, 2014, 4:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/2 "2014-04-07T04:48:44Z")
What’s wrong with just showing ‘en’?
I suppose we could add a link to [the list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes). I’d hazard a guess that if you work with computers and _aren’t_ English, you know what your code is. But my sample size is too small.
If anything, I’d suggest changing the list to include the native name, for instance:
- en (English)
- fr (Français)
- gd (Gàidhlig)
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### Author:  [@shiningdracon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiningdracon)
#### Post date: [4월 7, 2014, 5:21오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/3 "2014-04-07T05:21:25Z")
You are right, I’m working on a multi-language forum.
Consider users who know little about computer, they are hard to find the correct language by the unfamiliar language code. Add the native name will be user friendly.
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [4월 7, 2014, 6:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/4 "2014-04-07T06:00:48Z")
Hmm… on that note, we should be detecting the user’s language setting in their browser and switching the UI locale automatically.
(Just tested on FF, not working).
@zogstrip Zut alors!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7월 10, 2015, 11:56오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/5 "2015-07-10T23:56:29Z")
This is a good idea and I believe it is on @techapj’s list.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [10월 13, 2017, 4:33오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/6 "2017-10-13T04:33:54Z")
This is now complete in the admin section.
Per:
If admins enables user locales then we don’t get it 😢
However user locale selection is kind of rare, #pr-welcome to make the user selector consistent with admin.
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### Author:  [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [11월 28, 2017, 6:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/7 "2017-11-28T18:51:22Z")
Hi, sorry for the question, but I’m confused.
If I turn OFF “Allow users to choose their own language interface preference” then the interface language selector is not available. So… how will Spanish speaking users be able to have the interface be in Spanish? It seems that they would not be able to do so.
Alternatively, if I turn ON this feature, then the list appears per the screenshot above and is #pr-welcome. It would be excellent for the user view to be the same as the admin view.
Am I missing another option whereby Discourse automatically recognizes a user’s desired interface and gives them their language choice from the first time they visit the forum?
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [11월 28, 2017, 7:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/8 "2017-11-28T19:24:48Z")
This thread is specifically about displaying “English” instead of “en”. About your question, there is a more recent discussion at [Multilingual sites: ask for preferred language at registration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multilingual-sites-ask-for-preferred-language-at-registration/73497)
Short answer: the closest you will get to your scenario is by checking these options in `Settings > Basic setup`:
> - Allow users to choose their own language interface preference
> - set interface language for anonymous users from their web browser’s language headers. (EXPERIMENTAL, does not work with anonymous cache)
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [6월 15, 2018, 12:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/9 "2018-06-15T00:08:21Z")
The language selector on the user preferences page now displays the full name of the language:
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [6월 15, 2018, 1:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-let-language-selector-display-english-instead-of-en/14518/10 "2018-06-15T01:22:27Z")