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Looker admins can set Looker to display certain user interface (UI) text in the following languages:
Language
Locale Code and Strings Filename
English
en
Czech
cs_CZ
German
de_DE
Spanish (Spain)
es_ES
Finnish
fi_FI
French (France)
fr_FR
Hindi
hi_IN
Italian
it_IT
Japanese
ja_JP
Korean
ko_KR
Lithuanian
lt_LT
Norwegian (Bokmål)
nb_NO
Dutch
nl_NL
Polish
pl_PL
Brazilian Portuguese
pt_BR
Portuguese
pt_PT
Russian
ru_RU
Swedish
sv_SE
Thai
th_TH
Turkish
tr_TR
Ukrainian
uk_UA
Simplified Chinese
zh_CN
Traditional Chinese
zh_TW
To display the Looker UI in specific languages for particular users, set the locale for users, user groups, or instances through one of the following methods:
To set a locale for individual users: Use one of the codes from the supported user-interface languages table in the Locale field on the Edit User page in the Admin panel.
To set a locale for a user group: Assign one of the codes from the supported user-interface languages table to the locale user attribute for a particular user group. If users within a group have set a custom value using the Locale setting, the custom value will override any value assigned to the group. To prevent that from happening, ensure that the User Access setting for the locale user attribute is not set to Edit.
To set a locale for an instance: Assign one of the codes from the supported user-interface languages table to the Locale field on the Localization page of the Admin panel.
For users with no Locale set, Looker uses the locale chosen on the Localization page of the Admin panel as the default locale; and, if no locale is set there, Looker defaults to en.
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