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This article covers supported languages and countries/regions for the Power BI service, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI documentation. It also provides information about locale and regional features that make it possible to build multi-language reports. For example, you can design a Power BI report that renders in English for some users while rendering in Spanish, German, Japanese, or Hindi for other users.
A company or organization might want to build Power BI reports that support multiple languages. Doing so doesn't require them to clone and maintain a separate PBIX project file for each language. Instead, they increase usage and lower report maintenance by designing and implementing a strategy for building multi-language reports. To try it out yourself, use the Translations Builder tutorial to build multi language reports in Power BI.
For a list of countries and regions where Power BI is available, see the international availability list.
The Power BI service (in the browser) is available in the following 44 languages:
When you create a subscription for a report or dashboard, you may be surprised to see that the subscription is in U.S. English, even though Power BI is in another language. If so, you need to specify a language for your browser. See The language in my subscription isn't correct in the article "Troubleshoot Power BI subscriptions."
Power BI Desktop is available in the same languages as the Power BI service, except Hebrew and Arabic. Desktop doesn't support right-to-left languages.
Power BI translates menus, buttons, messages, and other elements of the experience into your language. For example, Power BI translates report content such as automatically generated titles, filters, and tooltips. However, your data isn't automatically translated. Inside reports, the layout of visuals doesn't change if you're using a right-to-left language such as Hebrew.
At this time, a few features are available in English only:
Note
The auto date/time feature generates localized month names using the "MMMM" format string. Since most Eastern Asia languages use "OOOO" as the format string, the month names generated by the auto date/time feature aren't localized to those languages.
Power BI detects your language based on the language preferences on your computer. The way you access and change these preferences may vary depending on your operating system and browser. Here's how to access these preferences from Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.
Select the Settings and more ellipses (...) from the upper right corner of your browser window, and choose Settings.
Select the Settings icon in the upper left corner of your browser window, and choose Languages.
Select your preferred language.
Select the menu button in the upper right corner of your browser window, and choose Settings.
Expand the main menu in the upper left corer and choose Languages.
To add a new language, select Add languages.
You may need to close and reopen your browser to see the change.
You have two ways of getting Power BI Desktop. You can download it as a standalone installer, or install it from the Windows Store.
Note
If you're installing the version of Power BI Desktop that's optimized for Power BI Report Server, you choose the language when you download. See Install Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server for details.
Install Power BI Desktop from the Windows Store, or as a standalone installer.
To change the language, open Desktop and in the upper left corner select File > Options and settings > Options.
Select Regional settings and set or change your language preferences.
Language support in Power BI Desktop is limited to the languages displayed in the Application Language dropdown.
Power BI Desktop gets its default number and date formatting from the Windows Region settings. You can check or change those settings, if needed.
On the Windows menu, select Settings.
In Windows Settings, select Time & language.
Select Language & Region > Additional date, time, and regional settings. If you don't see this option, scroll down to Region. Check and modify the Country or region and Regional format settings as needed.
Whether you download Power BI Desktop or install it from the Windows Store, you can choose a locale for a specific report to be something other than the locale in your version of Power BI Desktop. The locale changes the way Power BI interprets data when importing from your data source. For example, is "3/4/2017" interpreted as 3 April or March 4?
In Power BI Desktop, go to File > Options and settings > Options.
Under Current file, select Regional Settings.
In the Locale for import box, select a different locale.
Select OK.
Besides setting the language for the Power BI Desktop application, you can also set the model language. The model language affects chiefly two things:
Note
The Power BI model currently uses a locale that isn't case-sensitive (or kana-sensitive) so "ABC" and "abc" will be treated as equivalent. If "ABC" is loaded into the database first, other strings that differ only by case such as "Abc" don't load as a separate value.
Here's how to set the model language.
In Power BI Desktop, go to File > Options and settings > Options.
Under Global, select Regional Settings.
In the Model language box, select a different language.
Note
Once created, the language of a Power BI model can't be changed.
By default, DAX uses commas (,) to separate items in a list and periods (.) to indicate the decimal place in a number. While we do recommend using the defaults, you can use the DAX separators based on your Windows locale settings.
Note
The DAX separators section isn't shown if your Windows locale settings are set to "English US".
Here's how to make Power BI Desktop use localized DAX separators:
In Power BI Desktop, go to File > Options and settings > Options.
Under Global, select Regional Settings.
Under DAX separators select Use localized DAX separators.
Note
The DAX separators section won't be shown if your Windows locale settings are set to "English US".
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