top-level menu bar labels staying in English while submenu items show in Chinese
Steps to Reproduce
IDE Version: 3.10.17
Translation Plugin：Chinese (Simplified) (简体中文) Language Pack for Visual Studio Code
The IDE title bar cannot display Chinese properly in both Mac and Windows system environments. I tried uninstalling the translation plugin, reinstalling the IDE, and configuring the display language, but still encountered this problem.
Hey, this is expected behavior, not a bug in a specific version. Cursor is a fork of VS Code, and third-party language packs work on a best-effort basis here. Most of the editor UI gets translated, but some menu chrome elements stay in English. Right now that includes the top-level menu bar labels like File, Edit, View. Cursor’s own Settings/account page and the Agent/Chat window also stay in English. That’s why reinstalling the pack or the IDE and switching the display language doesn’t change anything. It’s not an install issue.
Full UI localization is tracked as a separate request, see Add support for Chinese. There’s no specific ETA yet for expanding translation to the menu bar.
Thank you very much for your reply. In the previous version, each title in the IDE menu bar could be displayed in Chinese through the Chinese plug-in. The same problem encountered before was also solved by switching the display language. However, different computer systems have encountered this problem this time, and completely uninstalling the IDE and trying the previous method cannot solve this problem. It just so happens that the new version of the plug-in and IDE was updated on July 7, so I’
Thanks for the extra detail. The fact that the menu bar used to be translated is important.
Key point: on July 7, not only Cursor updated, but the Language Pack itself also updated. Language packs are third-party extensions built for a specific VS Code build, and Cursor is a fork. When the pack is rebuilt for a new version, its NLS bundle can get out of sync with the fork, and some strings can fall back to English. Right now it’s the top-level menu bar labels. Submenus can still stay translated. So changing the display language won’t help, since this isn’t an IDE settings issue.
What you can try right now is rolling the extension back to the previous version:
Open Extensions, find Chinese (Simplified) 简体中文 Language Pack
Click the arrow next to Uninstall, or the gear icon, then pick Install Another Version
Select the version from before July 7
Restart Cursor
If the menu bar gets translated again on the older version, it points to the Language Pack update, and it’s worth reporting it to the extension maintainer.
Coverage for menu bar translation and Cursor-specific screens is tracked as a separate request: Add support for Chinese. No ETA yet. Let me know if the rollback helped.
