# Change Popup Keyboard Language

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-popup-keyboard-language/32981>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 10, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-popup-keyboard-language/32981 "2020-03-10T16:30:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![bvaldovinos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bvaldovinos/32/6315_2.png) [@bvaldovinos](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bvaldovinos)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-popup-keyboard-language/32981/1 "2020-03-10T16:30:44Z")

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Ignition 7.9.13  
Gateway: CentOS  
Client: Windows 10

Does anyone know how I would begin changing the popup keyboard language to reflect the selected language from the Language Selector component?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-popup-keyboard-language/32981/2 "2020-03-10T16:37:43Z")

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You can’t, unfortunately. The popup keyboard is a bespoke, modal dialog that’s hardcoded into US-English layout. And because it’s modal, it’ll interrupt any running scripts.