English language unavailable

Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Feb 28, 2026 by mpittiloni Closed Feb 28, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.227.1448 (747)

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

I was using the app in English but after the last update, the whole UI went to French with this "automatic detection" and it's impossible to go back to English, the language is not even showing in the list.

<img width="336" height="450" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f02837a4-ea16-44a1-8443-7f4c04371a82" />
<img width="327" height="478" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/30124aaf-82a5-4066-b9b1-3255361da184" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I think if the main language of the computer is French you will see the issue

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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7 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 4 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #13107
  • #13105
  • #13094
  • #13032
  • #12977

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leckiepeng · 4 months ago

same here, what a stupid bug.

SunZhiC · 4 months ago

Can't switch to English, same bug.

snatvb · 4 months ago

this is not duplicate! I can't switch lang on english!

steven-kid · 4 months ago

if anyone want a solution, there's a way to fix it :)

  1. set it to a random language, close & quit the codex app
  2. open ~/.codex/.codex-global-state.json file
  3. change the ”localeOverride“ to "en-US"
etraut-openai contributor · 4 months ago

This will be fixed in the next release

snatvb · 4 months ago

@steven-kid thank you
and thanks @etraut-openai :)