Language and region

Breadstick speaks 35 languages, and Linux can follow along. The settings are on Settings > Linux system, in three groups: App language, Linux language and Linux formats.

The app's language

Settings > Linux system > App language > Language sets the language of Breadstick itself. It starts on Follow the device, so Breadstick uses Android's language. Choose another and Breadstick uses it while the rest of Android stays as it is.

The 35 languages are Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Some are marked Beta: native speakers have not reviewed them yet. If a translation reads wrong, write to hello@breadstick.io with the language and the words, and we will fix it.

Breadstick's own Linux programs are translated too: Breadstick Settings, About, Updates, the launcher, the notification center and the desktop's menus. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu run right to left.

The Linux language

Linux language is the list of languages Linux programs use. With nothing set, Linux uses the app's language, or the device's. Add languages in order of preference: a program that has no translation for the first uses the second, and so on, before it falls back to English. Up to ten can be listed.

Apps you open after a change use the new language. Apps that are already open keep the one they started with until you reopen them.

Install language support for Linux apps fetches what other Linux programs need for your languages: translations, spell-check dictionaries and fonts for LibreOffice, Firefox and other apps. It downloads at the next desktop start. Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts are installed automatically when you choose one of those languages.

Linux formats

Linux formats decide how Linux programs write dates, times, numbers and money. Each one starts on the region's own choice, and each can be set by itself:

Setting	Choices
Region	Any region; it sets the defaults for the rest
Currency	Any currency
Time format	Automatic (follows Android's 24-hour setting), 12-hour or 24-hour
Date format	The region's, ISO 8601, day month year, or month day year
First day of the week	Any day
Measurement	The region's, Metric or US
Paper	The region's, A4 or Letter
Number format	The region's, or a separator style of your choice
Time zone	Follow the device, or any time zone

Breadstick Settings inside Linux has the same groups, on its Linux system page. See Settings.