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title: "Localization options"
description: "These settings configure TinyMCE's language capabilities, including right-to-left support and language Localization."
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Important This page documents TinyMCE 6. For new projects, Tiny recommends using the latest, most up-to-date version. [See TinyMCE 8 documentation](../../latest/ui-localization/).
# Localization options

There are two options for changing the language of the TinyMCE user interfaces: `language` and `language_url`. Tiny recommends using the `language` option for language packs bundled with the product or included in your cloud subscription. Community translations, custom language pack, or third-party language packs should be included using the `language_url` option to simplify updating and upgrading TinyMCE.

## `language`

This option specifies the language used for the TinyMCE user interface, such as menu items, dialogs, and tooltips. By default, TinyMCE user interface is set to US English.

Before changing the language option, ensure that the language pack is available to the TinyMCE instance. Tiny provides two collections of language packs:

- *Premium* language packs — Professionally localized language packs provided on Tiny Cloud and bundled with premium self-hosted bundles.
- *Community* language packs — Localizations provided by TinyMCE users through Crowdin. Community languages packs can be downloaded from [the Tiny Community Language Packs downloads page](/get-tiny/language-packages/).

For information on:

- Using the premium language packs, see: [Using the premium language packs](#using-the-premium-language-packs).
- Using the community language packs, see: [Using the community language packs](#using-the-community-language-packs).

**Type:** `String`

**Default value:** `'en'`

### Example: using `language`

In this example we will set the editor language to Swedish.

```js
tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',  // change this value according to your HTML
  language: 'sv_SE'
});
```

### Using the premium language packs

The following professionally localized language packs are provided to paid Tiny Cloud and premium self-hosted deployments. To use these language packs, set the `language` option to the corresponding language code. No additional configuration is required.

#### Supported Languages

| Language | Code |
| --- | --- |
| Arabic | ar |
| Basque | eu |
| Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | bg_BG |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chinese (China) | zh_CN |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh_TW |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| Finnish | fi |
| French (France) | fr_FR |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Hebrew (Israel) | he_IL |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hungarian (Hungary) | hu_HU |
| Indonesian | id |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Kazakh | kk |
| Korean (Korea) | ko_KR |
| Malay | ms |
| Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) | nb_NO |
| Persian | fa |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt_BR |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt_PT |
| Romanian | ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian (Slovenia) | sl_SI |
| Spanish | es |
| Swedish (Sweden) | sv_SE |
| Thai (Thailand) | th_TH |
| Turkish | tr |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Vietnamese | vi |

### Using the community language packs

To change the user interface language using a community language pack:

1. Download the language pack from [the Tiny Community Language Packages download page](/get-tiny/language-packages/).
2. Set the [`language`](#language) option in your TinyMCE configuration to the language code, matching the filename on the language pack. For example: If the language pack has the filename `sv_SE.js`, then set `language: 'sv_SE',`
3. Confirm that the language has been set successfully by loading TinyMCE.

> **Note:** The language code set in the TinyMCE configuration must match the filename of the language file. If the language file is not found, TinyMCE will not load.
If a language you need is not available, you may wish to translate TinyMCE yourself. To contribute to translating TinyMCE, go to our [Crowdin translation page](https://crowdin.com/project/tinymce) and sign up. Then request to join an existing team, or create a new team if your language are not listed.

## `language_url`

When using the [`language`](#language) option to set the user interface language you can place language pack(s) in a directory other than the default. If you do this, however, you must add the `language_url` option to your configuration and set this option to a path pointing to the language file(s) location.

We recommend the path URL be relative to the web application’s root. That is, begin with the absolute path reference character `/`. Avoid relying on application context for safe path resolution of language packs.

Also, the `language` option must also be set and must be set to the name of the language pack file being loaded.

**Type:** `String`

### Example: using `language_url`

```js
tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea', // change this value according to your HTML
  language_url: '/path/to/language/pack/fi.js', // path from the root of your web application — / — to the language pack(s)
  language: 'fi'  // the name of the language pack file
});
```
You can find and download languages [here](/get-tiny/language-packages/).

## `language_load`

This option determines whether additional plugin or theme languages are loaded during TinyMCE editor initialization. By default, plugins which have support for languages other than English will automatically load the additional language packs.

**Type:** `boolean`

**Default value:** `true`

- When the `language_load` option is set to `true`, any available language packs can be loaded and used by TinyMCE and plugins that support multiple-languages.
- When set to `false`, only explicitly configured language packs will load.

> **Important:** Setting `language_load` option to `false` is not recommended unless loading local language packs.

### Example: using `language_load`

```js
tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea', // Change this value according to your HTML
  language_load: true, // Disables the automatic loading of additional plugin and theme language files.
});
```

> **Tip:** When bundling, it is advisable for plugins that support multiple languages to load the additional language packs locally, and to set this option to `false`. This will ensure that all required languages are available for the editor, and that no additional language packs will be retrieved by the plugins.
You can find and download languages [here](/get-tiny/language-packages/).