Premiere 27.x launches in Japanese despite all language settings being English (macOS, Region = Japan)
Premiere version: [27.0.0] build88
macOS version: [15.8.2]
After updating to Premiere 27, the UI switched from English to Japanese.
Settings:
- macOS Preferred Languages: English (primary)
- macOS Region: Japan (AppleLocale = en_JP)
- Language & Region > Applications: Premiere 2027 = English (default)
- Creative Cloud Default install language: English
Expected: Premiere UI in English.
Actual: Premiere UI in Japanese - not only Premiere. All the updated Adobe apps are in Japanese.
Workaround: Console (Cmd+F12) > Debug Database View > ApplicationLanguage = en_US, then relaunch.
It looks like Premiere 27 may be deriving the UI language from the Region setting (JP) instead of the language settings. Similar to the known issue in Premiere 26.0 and previous versions as well("Premiere installs in English despite Creative Cloud language setting").
And...Every major update causes this problem. Hopefully every Adobe app has in-app Language Settings.
