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      Setty
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      I have a device with PF Sense + installed but it is set to Chinese. Can someone walk me through the steps to change it to English. I can't read Chinese so telling me to hit a menu by name will not help. I need someone to tell me go the the nth menu on top and click it, go town n number of items and click etc. Thanks.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Can you access the console or ssh into it? Which pfSense version?

        If so edit the config from the command line and remove the <language></language> tags. You can use the easy editor like:
        ee /cf/conf/config.xml

        Then reboot.

        It's hard to give step-by-step instructions because the menus change order depending on the language set.

        However you can probably see which menu you need by the linked url when you mouse-over it. The page you need (General Setup) is: https://your_firewall_name/system.php

        Steve

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by stephenw10

          Probably this:

          pfSense_General_SEetup.png

          Then this:

          pfSense_select_english.png

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            Setty @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 Thank you, I used your second suggestion going to system.php, scrolled down and was able to find and change location and language. I guessed that the button at the bottom submitted the changes and it camer up in English.

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