Netbeans locale setting

Teguh Eko Budiarto — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:57:45 +0000

I just upgraded my laptop harddisk. It is not that I need more space, but the old harddisk was failed several times, in a very critical moment when having tele-screen-sharing-conference with my client . Anyway, that was a different story. The story here is that I have to re-install my computer, and unfortunately, I haven’t got image backup of my HDD yet…another big mistake. However, I managed in a single, almost sleepless night to make it ready for to code again, and now already create the image for clean backup .

One of the main application I used to code is Netbeans. I love this editor. However, I am using Japanese as my windows locale, so as default, Netbeans will use that setting and display japanese menu. Even though until now, I am already living in Japan for 5 years, I still prefer English as my application menu language, so I don’t have to bother searching difficult kanji which can waste my productive time.

I did the setting before to change the locale to English after some time searching the web for the correct setting. And now, I have to do it again, but I don’t know where to find it anymore since I did not write about it anywhere. So, here it is. You may change the configuration of Netbeans, following instructions from this Netbeans Wiki.

To change the locale, you need to add text below after the last configuration in netbeans_default_options.

-J-Duser.language=en -J-Duser.region=US -J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

This is valid for Netbeans 6.5, and 6.71 when this post is written. I hope this can be useful for somebody besides me .

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Netbeans locale setting