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In this release, VS Code is bundled with only english language and other core languages are removed. Please test following scenarios and make sure users are guided properly to install required language packs so that they can have VS Code in the UI language they want.
When VS Code is freshly installed on a machine with english language OS its UI is shown in english by default and no prompts to install language packs should be shown.
When VS Code is freshly installed on a machine with non-english language OS (for eg., Chinese) its UI is shown in english by default and user should see a prompt to install the language pack of OS language
When VS Code is freshly installed on a machine and user starts VS Code from CLI by passing locale option code --locale=de then its UI is shown in english by default and user should see a prompt to install the language pack of language passed in arguments (de).
Update
When VS Code is updated from 1.23 or 1.24 to current stable on a machine with OS language is one of the core languages, its UI should be shown in OS language without any prompts if the corresponding language pack has been install on 1.23 or 1.24.
When VS Code is updated from 1.22 or lesser to current stable on a machine with OS language is one of the core languages, its UI should be shown in english language. If OS language is non-english, then user should see a prompt to install the language pack of OS language.
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Ref: #50588
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In this release, VS Code is bundled with only english language and other core languages are removed. Please test following scenarios and make sure users are guided properly to install required language packs so that they can have VS Code in the UI language they want.
Core Languages:
['de', 'en', 'en-US', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'ru', 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW']
Note: Make sure that prompts are shown in both OS language and English
Note: Latest stable build is here
Fresh Installation
When VS Code is freshly installed on a machine with english language OS its UI is shown in english by default and no prompts to install language packs should be shown.
When VS Code is freshly installed on a machine with non-english language OS (for eg., Chinese) its UI is shown in english by default and user should see a prompt to install the language pack of OS language
When VS Code is freshly installed on a machine and user starts VS Code from CLI by passing locale option
code --locale=de
then its UI is shown in english by default and user should see a prompt to install the language pack of language passed in arguments (de).Update
When VS Code is updated from 1.23 or 1.24 to current stable on a machine with OS language is one of the core languages, its UI should be shown in OS language without any prompts if the corresponding language pack has been install on 1.23 or 1.24.
When VS Code is updated from 1.22 or lesser to current stable on a machine with OS language is one of the core languages, its UI should be shown in english language. If OS language is non-english, then user should see a prompt to install the language pack of OS language.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: