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Resolved How can I change my Country Code in macOS?

CitrusLuna

CitrusLuna

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Sep 21, 2022
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Tokushima-ken, Japan
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Please, somebody help me. I already search about this information for a week.

Apple logo -> (option key) System Information... -> Software -> Language & Region.

In this window, the Country Code of System Settings is KR. (Maybe, Korea?)

But I have no idea why this setting is set by Korea.

I want to change this settings to JP(Japan), but I can't change this in my System Settings. (System Settings -> General -> Language & Region -> Region is aleady Japan. Preferred Languages is English (Primary) and Japanese only.)


Is there has any solution to solve this problems?

And also, I want to delete Korean assets in 'Requested Linguistic Assets' in User Settings.

Please, somebody help me.

p.s. I already set 'Apply to Login Window' by Japanese.

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bogdanw said:
It might be just another Ventura bug. Try to change Region to US, verify that it has been changed, then change it again to Japan.
Apple's support article "Change Language & Region settings on Mac" https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-language-region-settings-on-mac-intl163/mac
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Okay, I tried it.

And my Country Code of 'User Settings' was changed, but Country Code of System Settings is still KR.

There's any solution to change System Settings? Like terminal commend or something...
 
Okay... I think I found a solution of one thing.
The Requested Linguistic Assets of User Setting is can be erase below.

~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Open this file with Xcode, and go to follow key.

NSLinguisticDataAssetsRequest
- Item String ko

Select this section, and delete it and save it.

This affects to Requested Linguistic Assets of User Setting.

But I still have no idea to change System Setting. (Not user settings.)

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From Terminal
Code: 
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist Country JP
 
Oh my. I solved it myself.

The problem is on exactly same file, but about system library.

Disk(default is 'Macintosh HD') /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

this file is the problem.

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I copied this file to my another directory (because Xcode can't edit system files directly)
And just edit Root > Country String to 'JP'.

And I tried to copy to original directory, And, boom!

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It's solved.

I didn't expect that after spending a week worrying about this problem and bringing it up this forum, I would be able to solve the problem myself in a few minutes.

Oh my god.
 

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bogdanw said:
From Terminal
Code: 
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist Country JP
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Oh... I didn't notice I can overwrite it with terminal.

BTW, where is the place to storage 'OS Interface Languages' of System Settings? My Mac has lots of languages on this option, so I want to delete what I don't use...
 
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