Maya can run in English, Japanese, or Simplified Chinese. It chooses the language to run in based on the language of your operating system.
You can set Maya to run in English regardless of the language of your operating system by setting the MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE
environment variable.
To run Maya in English regardless of the OS language
- Windows: open the environment variable settings and create the MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE variable and set it to en_US. You can set environment variable using the putenv command in the Command line. See Setting and Getting Environment Variables.
- macOS: set the MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE variable on the command line: export MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE=en_US
Maya now runs in English.
To return Maya to the same language as your operating system (the default setting)
- Windows: delete MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE from your environment variables on Windows.
- macOS: use unset MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE.
Important: Environment variables set with the Maya
Command line are saved only for the current instance of Maya. That means that when you close the application, you need to perform the environment variable operation in this topic again.