How to change UI from partially Chinese to fully English on M2 Mac with R2023b?

Parts of the UI are in Chinese. For example, menus that display on right click.

Not all of the UI is in Chinese:

I cannot change the settings in Preferences:

And my computer uses English as the primary language:

In documenting this issue, I discovered that removing "Chinese, Simplified" from my list of "Preferred Languages" resolves the issue. I also learned that adding a language as an Input Source also adds it as a Preferred Language, but removing it from the Preferred Language list does not remove it from the Input Sources.

So, at the end of this, I have my fix: Remove "Chinese, Simplified" from my preferred languages. It just feels unnecessary since English is my Primary language there. Not sure if it's a Java thing and I should really be talking to Amazon, but at least this can be here for others who have this issue. Or maybe it's just me.

[Walter Roberson]

(Small note: Java is from Oracle, not Amazon)

[Daniel Bergman]

This was actually an oblique reference to Amazon Corretto 8, the Java 8 JRE required to run the Apple Silicon version of MATLAB.

[Zoey Shang]

Is this fixed?

Answer 1

[Juan Antonio]

I had the same issue and had to go through the same solution: I deleted the chinesse and japanese languages from the mac preferences. I am running Matlab R2023b in a MacBook Pro with M1 Max and Sonoma 14.1.

Answer 2

[Hans Scharler]

It looks like you tried removing "Chinese, Simplified" from the preferred languages list to fix this issue. This should be a temporary fix. I am escalating the issue with our development teams. Thank you.

[Maurizio Schmid]

Same issue here. (Apple M1, native R2023b). Appears on right click UIs on the editor (not on those from the command window).

[Xiao Liu]

same here. M1 macos 13.6, matlab 2023b maca64

Answer 3

[ミスター Natsuo Higano]

Hi Daniel, MATLAB requires the Region and the Preferred Language in System Preferences to be set to the same locale, then restart. Also could you please copy and paste the output from "feature locale" command in MATLAB Command Window? That might show us what settings need to be changed.

Refer to https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/how-the-matlab-process-uses-locale-settings.html in our documenation.

Thank you.

[Daniel Bergman]

My Region is set to United States. My Preferred Languages sets English to Primary.

Here's the ouput of feature locale in MATLAB. It is unchanged if I add Chinese, Simplified back to my Preferred Languages.

[ミスター Natsuo Higano]

"feature locale" looks fine, so the next step for us is to reproduce the context menu showing in the language not consitent with the display language.

Would you mind showing us the sequence of steps you have done leading to the right click menu in Simplified Chinese? Then we will do our best to replicate what you are seeing on our end.

Also, it might be helpful if you could restart your macOS instance if you haven't already, and also would it be possible to create a new user with the same account type (admin or user) and try the same steps? It would be ideal if you could replicate the issue on a physical macOS machine by logging in as the same user.

Over the years, we have seen or our users have reported occasionally that the language/locale changes for a particular macOS user account causes MATLAB to behave rather erratically related the locale or language changes, and the user setting cannot be fixed to the normal behaviors. We spent many hours internally in the past to get to the bottom of it but we could not figure out how to detect or identify the similar issues to do with the user account's locale data.

In order for us to work on the issue as a bug, it is critical that we could reproduce the issue reliably on our macOS machine. I appreciate your cooperations to isolate the issue.

Thank you.

[ミスター Natsuo Higano]

Hi Daniel, we identified the issue and it is being addressed, so you do not need to provide any further information to us. And I think there will be a follow-up post to the thread. Thank you for your patience.

[Allen Sun]

@ミスター Natsuo Higano Has there been any development on this issue? I'm having the same problem using an M1 Pro MacBook Pro. If at all possible, I would rather not remove Chinese from my system language settings since I use it in other applications.

Thank you.