Swatch panel suddenly started displaying in Russian - how do I get it back to English?

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May 31, 2022
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No idea how this happened but the swatches panel started displaying in Russian/Cyrillic text. No other panels are doing this. I can't find any options from within the panel or in the Preferences to change the language back to English. I quit and restarted Illustrator but it is still doing it. I was working with InDesign at the same time but it is fine. I did web searches for this topic but found nothing helpful.

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Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Thanks for the screenshot. It's kind of funny and unfortunately I don't know how to cure the issue.

However, a side note, I've seen similar oddities in the German version of Illustrator. There it happened and still may happen that all predefined libraries (graphic styles, symbols, brushes and sometimes colour swatches) are displayed in Danish. First I thought that Jacob captured the application for some reason, but probably it is just a well-meant language course.

tromboniator

Community Expert

No, I've never seen anything like this, nor do I recall any discussion about it; however, when I see any odd or unexplained behavior my first port of call is usually to blame Jacob.

Peter

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

That's astonishing. Can you perhaps share a screenshot that shows your workspace with that international and cross-cultural event?

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dieverdogAuthor

Participating Frequently

Yeah, I realized after I submitted the question that I should have added a screenshot. Here it is. You can see the Cyrillic text in the swatch window on the right, but the other swatch window (from our own swatch library) at the the left still shows up in English as usual.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Did you originally create the swatches in English????

My guess is you got this file somewhere, and the person who created uses Cyrillic or they bought some clip art from another person who originally created this. I would

Swatches flyout >> Select All Unused >> then click trash can at bottom of swatches palette
Manually rename the few colors left over, by double-clicking on the swatch.

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