# Change the default language of the Management Client

Each administrator can change the default language of the Management Client during installation or manually after installation. The options are English and Japanese.

## Before you begin

During a local installation of the SMC, you can set the default language of the Management Client to English or Japanese in the installation wizard. Each administrator can select English or Japanese in the logon dialog box when logging on to the Management Client.

## Steps

1. To change the language after installation, locate the locale.properties file in the <user>/.stonegate/user_locale folder.
2. Change the smc.locale.default setting in the locale.properties file to the language you want:
   - `smc.locale.default=ja` for Japanese
   - `smc.locale.default=en` for English
3. Save the changes to the locale.properties file.