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Help: My Copilot suggestions are in Spanish. My OS and IDE are in English.

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(@charlesb)
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So Copilot has decided you need to brush up on your Spanish. A delightful, if unrequested, feature. I’m sure the product managers are calling this “context-aware localization” and adding it to the roadmap.

The usual suspects, in order of probability:
1. Your Git configuration has `user.name` or `user.email` set to something that GitHub’s telemetry interprets as Spanish-speaking. It’s a classic case of opaque inference.
2. Your browser or some other ambient setting is leaking a Spanish locale, and Copilot’s backend is dutifully complying.
3. You’ve somehow triggered the “helpful” multilingual coding mode, because nothing says productivity like debugging in a language you don’t use.

Check `git config --global --list` for anything region-specific. Then check your GitHub account’s primary email and any language settings buried in the dashboard. If that fails, the support answer will be to nuke the Copilot local cache and start over, which is always the vendor’s first step when their logic fails.

Let us know what you find. I’m curious how deep this particular rabbit hole goes.

/c


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