How to fix Microsoft Visual studio code, language pack issue from English to French at first launch.

[Purna-1419]

We are facing issue regarding the Microsoft Visual studio code --language pack, so we need to change the display language of the software to French(FR), so as per information provided on visual studio code page, we downloaded the language pack and also edited the argv.json file but even Tho keeping this files and folders priorly after installation, still at first launch we are getting English language only. Please refer attached image 1

. As we are getting French language at 2nd launch(Refer image 2),

we also tried to add start process of code.exe and killed it so it gets launched at once into the script. but still even after keeping user data files, language package and also start process and kill through script still English language gets displayed.

Summary: On first launch we are getting English language even after keeping all the needed data in user context, but after closing the software and relaunch it manually then only it displays French lang. Not of first launch. Please help us understand if any additional parameters files to be added to make it work on first launch.

[rzhao271]

Hi, which operating system and locale (e.g. en-US) are you using?

[kIRa0216]

Android

[ParticleG]

Hi, which operating system and locale (e.g. en-US) are you using?

Same issue here, we use the cli to install language extension and set startup args (--install-extension, add locale to argv.json, then launch) and it did not change my language. The only way we can get it working is first change the language from UI，this step will generate a json file called languagepacks.json, and then copy this file to what ever new environment you'd like to install and launch vscode with specific locale

[vs-code-engineering[bot]]

Hey @rzhao271, this issue might need further attention.

@Purna-1419, you can help us out by closing this issue if the problem no longer exists, or adding more information.