How to change UI language in Visual Studio Code?

How to change UI language in Visual Studio Code (1.0 released April 2016)?

Solution 1:

• Open VSCode
• Press F1 and type 'language'
• Choose "Configure language" in the menu
• Change the 'locale' value. See 'here' for available languages.

  Example: "locale":"en-US"

• Save
• Restart vscode

Solution 2:

Since my Chinese (or whatever language this is in your screenshot) is pretty bad I describe how to set the display language to american English without using VSCode.

• Close VSCode

• Open the file locale.json with a text editor (I suggest not to use VSCode).

  On Windows the file is located under C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Code\User

  On Linux it's under $HOME/.config/Code/User

  On a Mac it's under $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User

• Change the file content to

  {
       "locale":"en-US"
  }
  

• Open VSCode again

Solution 3:

See "Display Language" https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/locales

I had trouble with this and the answer from Eric Bole-Feysot did not help as it is missing an important step.

1. Open VS Code
2. Press F1
3. Type "configure display language"
4. Select "configure display language" from the options displayed beneath the inputbox
5. Change JSON to

"locale": "en-US"

6. Close window and be prompted to save.
7. Re-start VS code

Hope that helps.