Admins can set the default locale and number format for a Looker instance on the Localization page in the General section of the Admin panel.
Admins can set locales or number formats at the user or user group levels as well. Settings at the user or user group levels supersede settings for the instance.
Locale
Certain Looker user interface text can be displayed in the following languages:
| Language | Locale Code and Strings Filename |
|---|---|
| English | en |
| Czech | cs_CZ |
| German | de_DE |
| Spanish | es_ES |
| French | fr_FR |
| Hindi | hi_IN |
| Italian | it_IT |
| Japanese | ja_JP |
| Korean | ko_KR |
| Lithuanian | lt_LT |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | nb_NO |
| Dutch | nl_NL |
| Polish | pl_PL |
| Brazilian Portuguese | pt_BR |
| Portuguese | pt_PT |
| Russian | ru_RU |
| Swedish | sv_SE |
| Thai | th_TH |
| Turkish | tr_TR |
| Ukrainian | uk_UA |
| Simplified Chinese | zh_CN |
| Traditional Chinese | zh_TW |
It is helpful if Looker developers who are localizing data models set the models’ default_locale parameters and the titles of their associated strings files to match the default locale for the instance.
If no locale is set on this page, Looker defaults to en.
For more information about localizing the Looker user interface, see the Supported user-interface languages documentation page.
Number format
Looker's default number format setting for numbers that appear in data tables and visualizations is 1,234.56. However, the number format can be set to any of the following:
- 1,234.56: Thousands separated with commas; decimals separated with a period
- 1.234,56: Thousands separated with periods; decimals separated with a comma
- 1 234,56: Thousands separated with spaces; decimals separated with a comma
For more information about localizing number formatting, see the Localizing number formatting documentation page.