UILanguage

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista

UILanguage specifies the default system language that is used to display user interface (UI) items (such as menus, dialog boxes, and Help files).

For a list of supported languages, see Available Language Packs.

In upgrade installation types, this setting is ignored. In upgrade installations, you can upgrade only from the same language.

Values

UI_language

Specifies the language of the UI.

UI_language is a string based on the language-tagging conventions of RFC 3066. The pattern language-region is used, where language is a language code and region is a country or region identifier (for example, en-US, fr-FR, or es-ES).

This value is not case-sensitive.

This string type supports empty elements.

Parent Hierarchy

Microsoft-Windows-International-Core | UILanguage

Valid Configuration Passes

oobeSystem

specialize

Applies To

For the list of the Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-International-Core.

XML Example

The following example shows how to set the UI language to German (Germany).

<InputLocale>0407:00000407</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>de-DE</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>de-DE</UILanguage>
<UserLocale>de-DE</UserLocale>

See Also

Concepts

Microsoft-Windows-International-Core