Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above.
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ships with a new module worth exploring: the International module. You can use the module cmdlets to control the language that is used for various elements of the user interface (UI). Since the early days of PowerShell, we could get the current culture with the Get-Culture cmdlet but we couldn’t set it. The International module enables us to set the culture with the Set-Culture cmdlet.
The Set-Culture cmdlet enables you to quickly set the user culture for the current user account. The information includes the names for the culture, the writing system, the calendar, and formatting for dates and sort strings.
Set-Culture -CultureInfo he-IL
Here’s a list of the International module commands:
PS> Get-Command -Module International CommandType Name ModuleName ----------- ---- ---------- Cmdlet Get-WinAcceptLanguageFromLanguageListOptOut International Cmdlet Get-WinCultureFromLanguageListOptOut International Cmdlet Get-WinDefaultInputMethodOverride International Cmdlet Get-WinHomeLocation International Cmdlet Get-WinLanguageBarOption International Cmdlet Get-WinSystemLocale International Cmdlet Get-WinUILanguageOverride International Cmdlet Get-WinUserLanguageList International Cmdlet New-WinUserLanguageList International Cmdlet Set-Culture International Cmdlet Set-WinAcceptLanguageFromLanguageListOptOut International Cmdlet Set-WinCultureFromLanguageListOptOut International Cmdlet Set-WinDefaultInputMethodOverride International Cmdlet Set-WinHomeLocation International Cmdlet Set-WinLanguageBarOption International Cmdlet Set-WinSystemLocale International Cmdlet Set-WinUILanguageOverride International Cmdlet Set-WinUserLanguageList International
