Internationalization

Locale settings and messages

Topics

Set Locale on Microsoft Windows Platforms
MATLAB^®reads the user locale and system locale on Windows^®platforms.
Set Locale on Linux Platforms
To specify the locale to be used by MATLAB on Linux^®platforms, use theLANGenvironment variable.
Set Locale on macOS Platforms
MATLAB reads the user locale setting on theApplemacOSplatform.
Locale Setting Concepts for Internationalization
The locale setting defines the language of your user interface and the display formats for information like time, date, and currency.
Numbers Display Period for Decimal Point
MATLAB reads the user locale for all categories except for thenumericcategory (which is equivalent withLC_NUMERIC).
Change the MATLAB Desktop Language
MathWorks^®provides localized versions of MATLAB for selected non-English platforms.

The user locale and system locale must be the same value on the Microsoft^®Windows platform.

Plain text files, such as MATLAB scripts or functions, created with one locale setting might not be compatible with a different locale setting.

The results of thedatenumfunction vary depending on the locale.

MATLAB does not support non 7-bit ASCII characters in several features.

MATLAB ignores the customized portion of the locale setting onmacOSplatforms.

老X服务器可能不承认国际keyboard layouts and can produce incorrect characters in Simulink^®.