Those are the languages you can configure your SQL Developer installation to use. Once there, look for a line containing the text ‘’.
To see the list of other languages that are supported, instead of going to the ‘sqldeveloper\bin’ folder, go to the ‘ide\bin’ one, and open the ‘ide.boot’ file with a text editor. Since there is not a specific place to put this new setting, I put it almost at the beginning (with a comment to help me remember that it is for the program’s language): These are the first lines of my nf file after editing. Now you can save and close the file, and the next time you open SQL Developer, you will see it in English! So, this is the line you need to add: AddVMOption -Duser.language=enĪnd that’s it. The parameter we need to add is ‘user.language’ and in this case we need to set it to ‘en’, for English. Since SQL Developer is a Java application, we need to use the AddVMOption command to pass the parameter to the Java virtual machine when it starts the application. To change the language, you need to add a new setting there.Open this file with the text editor of your choice. There is a file called “nf”, which is the one you need to edit to change the language.Once there, open the ‘sqldeveloper’ folder, and then the ‘bin’ folder.To do that you can right-click on its shortcut, and click on ‘Open file location’. In case you prefer video: Changing SQL Developer language, on YouTube It turns out that there is a pretty easy way to change the user interface language, which I describe below. That’s why I want SQL Developer in English, so, How do I change Oracle SQL Developer language? People might try to help you by saying “Go to this option, click on that button, or change this setting”, but if you have the program in other language, things can get complicated at times.
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I needed to change SQL Developer language, because today I installed it on a machine whose operating system is Windows 8 in Spanish, and SQL Developer got installed in Spanish too :-/Įven though Spanish is my first language, I usually like to have programs installed in English because, among other things, it is usually easier to find help for the English versions.