My Win 10 system has Spanish language.
I mean to fully operate a PowerShell session in English.
Across everything I tried (see below), I managed to change the UICulture
to en-US
for the current session, but not the Culture
.
Is there any way I can permanently change the Culture
for the current PowerShell session?
Changing the Culture
(with no success):
> $( Get-Culture ; Get-UICulture ; [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture ; [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture ; [CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture ; [CultureInfo]::CurrentUICulture ; ) | Format-Table -Property LCID,Name,DisplayName,IsNeutralCulture,UseUserOverride,IsReadOnly
LCID Name DisplayName IsNeutralCulture UseUserOverride IsReadOnly
---- ---- ----------- ---------------- --------------- ----------
11274 es-AR Spanish (Argentina) False True False
1033 en-US English (United States) False True False
11274 es-AR Spanish (Argentina) False True False
1033 en-US English (United States) False True False
11274 es-AR Spanish (Argentina) False True False
1033 en-US English (United States) False True False
> Set-Culture 'en-US'
> [Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture='en-US'
> $( Get-Culture ; Get-UICulture ; [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture ; [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture ; [CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture ; [CultureInfo]::CurrentUICulture ; ) | Format-Table -Property LCID,Name,DisplayName,IsNeutralCulture,UseUserOverride,IsReadOnly
LCID Name DisplayName IsNeutralCulture UseUserOverride IsReadOnly
---- ---- ----------- ---------------- --------------- ----------
11274 es-AR Spanish (Argentina) False True False
1033 en-US English (United States) False True False
11274 es-AR Spanish (Argentina) False True False
1033 en-US English (United States) False True False
11274 es-AR Spanish (Argentina) False True False
1033 en-US English (United States) False True False
Note: I inferred System.Threading.Thread
and Threading.Thread
are the same.
Other things I tried:
Answers here and here. Since they are SO posts, I guess not posting them here reduces the clutter. But I could add them if deemed convenient.
I found a few other posts, all repeating the same commands.
EDIT:
Methods for setting Culture:
S1. Win Settings -> Time and Language -> Region -> Regional Format
S2. Set-Culture <culture>
S3. [CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture=<culture>
S4. [Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture=<culture>
Methods for getting Culture:
G1. Same as S1.
G2. Get-Culture
G3. [CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture
G4. [Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture
What I found:
- S3/G3 and S4/G4 seem to involve the same session setting / environment variable / registry key, etc. (?), and to be completely equivalent.
- Method S1 affects (G2, G3, G4) in a new session.
- Method S2 affects G1 immediately, and (G3, G4) in a new session.
- Methods (S3, S4) affect (G3, G4) immediately (trivial) but only in the current thread, not session, and (1, 2) not at all.
- The options available in method S1 are richer than those for method S2. I can change in S1 to "Spanish (Argentina)", "English (US)", etc., and it will get reflected in PS. But if I change in S1 to "Spansh (Brazil)", then PS will show
en-US
, as if it were a fallback Culture.
The following function will change both
Culture
andUICulture
for the current PowerShell session in PowerShell 5.1:It is actually a merge of the already linked answer and mkelement0's comment.
Example usage: