<p>Can I change the current locale?</p>

<p>I've set up a standard site, using CRAFT client version (one language). Apparently Craft installs the en_us as the primary language. Content is added (in Dutch) and now some months later the client decides to upgrade to Craft PRO and move to a multilingual site adding an additional locale. As en_us was the primary one nl_nl is added as the next locale.</p>

<p>However all Dutch content was added in the (old) en_us locale. Is there a way to swap this? Change the en_us to nl_nl while keeping the Dutch content in place?</p>

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2015-12-10T16:00:04.067Z
Why swap, they should be identical now?
carlcs
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2015-12-10T16:04:15.750Z
Right. For entries that's true, but this site contains a lot of matrix entries and there it don't work that way.
Robbie Post
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2015-12-10T16:05:27.803Z
Oh, I didn't know it still doesn't copy Matrix content.
carlcs
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Change the current locale
# Change the current locale

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-10)

Can I change the current locale?

I've set up a standard site, using CRAFT client version (one language). Apparently Craft installs the en\_us as the primary language. Content is added (in Dutch) and now some months later the client decides to upgrade to Craft PRO and move to a multilingual site adding an additional locale. As en\_us was the primary one nl\_nl is added as the next locale.

However all Dutch content was added in the (old) en\_us locale. Is there a way to swap this? Change the en\_us to nl\_nl while keeping the Dutch content in place?

**Tags:** localization, control-panel, language

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Why swap, they should be identical now?  
> **username_0**: Right. For entries that's true, but this site contains a lot of matrix entries and there it don't work that way.  
> **username_1**: Oh, I didn't know it still doesn't copy Matrix content.  

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