# ownCloud Administrators Manual

# Setting the Default Language

In normal cases ownCloud will automatically detect the language of the Web-GUI. If this doesn’t work properly or you want to make sure that ownCloud always starts with a given language, you can use the default_language parameter.

Please keep in mind, that this will not effect a users language preference, which has been configured under “personal -> language” once he has logged in.

Please check `settings/languageCodes.php` for the list of supported language codes.

## Parameters

    <?php

      "default_language" => "en",

This parameters can be set in the `config/config.php`