Hebrew(Israel) is replaced with English(United States) in Localization Settings

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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Hebrew(Israel) is replaced with English(United States) in Localization Settings

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Ally McGill

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Issue

When I add Hebrew(Israel) from the Available List to the Current List in the Localization settings, it is replaced with English(United States) in the Current Language List.

Environment

Liferay 2024Q2 with Java 17

Resolution

From Java 8 to Java 17, changes were made in locale support, specifically with the language codes for Hebrew(Israel) and Indonesian(Indonesia).

The issue can be fixed by:

Adding the locales portal property to portal-ext.properties with the updated language codes

#Locales
locales=\
      ar_SA,\
      eu_ES,\
      bg_BG,\
      km_KH,\
      ca_AD,\
      ca_ES,\
      ca_ES_VALENCIA,\
      zh_CN,\
      zh_TW,\
      hr_HR,\
      cs_CZ,\
      da_DK,\
      nl_NL,\
      nl_BE,\
      en_US,\
      en_GB,\
      en_AU,\
      en_CA,\
      et_EE,\
      fi_FI,\
      fr_FR,\
      fr_CA,\
      gl_ES,\
      de_DE,\
      el_GR,\
      he_IL,\
      hi_IN,\
      hu_HU,\
      id_ID,\
      it_IT,\
      ja_JP,\
      kk_KZ,\
      ko_KR,\
      lo_LA,\
      lt_LT,\
      ms_MY,\
      nb_NO,\
      fa_IR,\
      pl_PL,\
      pt_BR,\
      pt_PT,\
      ro_RO,\
      ru_RU,\
      sr_RS,\
      sr_RS_latin,\
      sl_SI,\
      sk_SK,\
      es_AR,\
      es_CO,\
      es_ES,\
      es_MX,\
      sv_SE,\
      ta_IN,\
      th_TH,\
      tr_TR,\
      uk_UA,\
      vi_VN