Display language change not taking effect for extensions running in remote extension host

[zWingz]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

• VS Code Version: Codespaces
• OS Version: Codespaces

Steps to Reproduce:

1. change display language to zh-cn
2. see scm view

Some of the characters are Chinese and some are English

[TylerLeonhardt]

/duplicate #165974 (comment)

This will be fixed in the next stable release of vscode projected for this week.

[zWingz]

It still not work on Codespace in 1.74.0 @TylerLeonhardt
I think it is because the Chinese (Simplified) (简体中文) Language Pack can't be installed in Web

[TylerLeonhardt]

Yes this is actually a different issue. Nice catch. The problem here is that you have a client (your browser) and your remote (the Codespaces machine). The Language pack is being used for the client but not the remote and the Git extension runs on the remote side.

Through various brute forcing, this can eventually work... but it's not intuitive at all. Here's an example:

You can see that I have the Spanish Language Pack installed on the remote side... I don't remember when I did that or how... but I have it there. If I set to Spanish, it works:

However, now I try Chinese:

my UI is in Chinese but the language pack is not installed on the Remote side so the Git extension isn't translated:

We need to make sure that setting the language in the client gets properly sent to the remote and the language pack installed.