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Launch Google Chrome with a specific locale (using the command line argument)

How to start Google Chrome with a specific locale using command line arguments?

According to http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

chrome.exe --lang DE

should work, however it is not.

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Other offers do not work in Debian Jessie. What works for me:

 LANGUAGE=de google-chrome
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path_to_chrome.exe --lang=locale (note the = sign)

A comprehensive intrigue on how to set the language standard of your browser: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/i18n#locales-testing

List of supported locales: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/i18n#localeTable

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In any case, I needed to specify both en-US and en so that everything was configured correctly.

This was my command line argument:

 --lang=en-US,en
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/972943/

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