- Windows 11 24h2 reportedly has an error in which it mixes two languages
- After a change from one language to another, menus end up appearing in both of these languages
- This seems to be a problem that is specifically for 24h2, though Microsoft’s latest (optional) patch may have fixed things
Windows 11 24H2 reportedly has another weird mistake, and this time Microsoft’s operating system is to make a mess of language, though apparently there is a solution for the problem (I’ll be back to it later).
The XDA developers were on the case of highlighting this error and noticing posts on Reddit and Microsoft’s Support Forum, Answers.com, explaining the problem, making a Windows 11 installation two different languages.
What happens according to the various reports is that if a PC runs Windows 11 24h2 and is configured with, for example, Spanish as the language, and then switches to English, the interface ends up as a mixture of the two languages.
Screenshot (see below) is delivered to a Windows 11 24H2 system that was changed from Japanese to English, and the menus are a messy mixture of both (actually more Japanese, original language than English).
Unfortunately, even removing the original language from the Windows 11 installation in question does not cure the problem, with the interface steadily remains the same, a confusing combination of the two languages.
Apparently this has been a problem since October 2024 when the 24H2 update was first released – so in other words, this has been a mistake in the works from the start.
There are a few system administrators who claim they are facing the problem of their fleet of 24h2 PCs, and some devices are affected, while others are not, without any obvious rhyme or reason for which systems are affected. (Even computers with exactly the same hardware are affected in one case and not in another).
What appears to be clear is that the problem does not relate to Windows 11 23H2 machines, but is only a problem for those who upgrade to (or clean) the 24h2 version of us.
Has this bug literally been corrected?
There is some better news among the confused Skrav and Head-Scratching on this question, and that is the revelation of the above-mentioned Reddit-thread-of the original poster-at install the latest update to Windows 11 apparently healed the problem.
This is the optional patch for Windows 11 24h2 released earlier this week, which comes with a whole bunch of remedial work for different errors in us, and apparently also the correction to this language error. Of course, take it with some spices, but if you have experienced this weird mix of two languages in Windows 11 interface, it’s probably worth a shot at installing the preview update to cure these blues.
Or, if you prefer, you can just wait until next month, when this preview becomes the full March -cumulative update to 24 hours of users after it has been completed its final test (which is what the optional update is for – and the reason it is optional as it may still have wrinkles to stroke out, then consider yourself warned).
Windows 11 24h2, which has another error, will not come as much of a surprise to those who have followed the latest version, which has been hit by a whole series of errors since it first came up late last year.
