Almost every week I install new JIRA instance either for training purpose or as part of the JIRA consultation service that we provide to our clients. I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1 with 8GB RAM, this is only for training purpose and yesterday I installed JIRA on this laptop. Everything was fine but I noticed that that language in various JIRA project reports was hindi. May be it was because of the system default or due to time zone. It is good to have language support but we all are more comfortable with English, also some of the characters were not visible properly on the chart.
It was only the language in charts that was in Hindi, everywhere else in JIRA English was the default language.
For changing this the first thing I did was to look into the System > Settings and look for the Default language, but it was already set to "English (United States)". So I searched on Atlassian forums and found a clue on this link.
The trick is to add the -Duser.language=en argument in your setenv.bat file.
Here is the excerpt of my setenv.bat file.
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set JVM_REQUIRED_ARGS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Datlassian.standalone=JIRA -Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER=true -Dmail.mime.decodeparameters=true -Dorg.dom4j.factory=com.atlassian.core.xml.InterningDocumentFactory -Duser.language=en
Just restart your JIRA instance after making this change.
Problem solved :)
