Masaki Katakai's Weblog: NetBeans Globalization

I sometime see this question in nbusers mailing list. Now NetBeans IDE 5.5 is multi-language binary and all possible localization files will be installed by default. It means even if you download English bits, IDE will start with Japanese UI messages when you start it in Japanese, Chinese and environment.

When you use Solaris and Linux, you can change the language to English and can start IDE quickly like,

$ export LANG=C
$ export LC_ALL=C
$ ./netbeans

On Windows, you can use --locale en option. You can apply this option on command line or you can put this to netbeans.conf file,

$ netbeans --locale en

I updated these information of FaqMessagesInEnglish in NetBeans User FAQ.

However, it seems that English fonts will be used after switching the locale to en, so some multibyte characters are not displayed properly on Japanese, Chinese and Korean environment.