message box title bar and questdlg box buttons are displaying in Japanese language.

Hi

I am using Matlab of Japanese version. I am using a message box and a questdlg box in a .m file. Now i want the title of the message box and buttons in questdlg box to be displayed in English. Even though i provide parameters to message box and questdlg box in English, its been displaying in Japanese.

Kindly help.

Answer 1

[TED MOSBY]

Hi Madhu,

MATLAB decides what language to use for every built-in dialog (button captions, default titles, menu text, error messages, …) from the “Desktop language” setting that you picked when MATLAB started. Hence you can change the language for the MATLAB session to English. Here is how you can navigate to the setting:

Home ▸ Environment ▸ Settings ▸ MATLAB > General ▸ Desktop language → English.

Then restart MATLAB.

Here is the documentation for this:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/matlab-desktop-language.html

Hope this helps!

[Walter Roberson]

Note that the answer to this question was different back in 2012, which did not support the Desktop language preference.