Sitecore Core DB Items Changed Language?

Question

Our Sitecore DB items had many of their display names changed to Japanese for no apparent reason. We thought that we might have accidentally changed the Sitecore language in the content editor, but I can confirm that it is in fact English. This seems to only be happening in the core DB. Has anyone had something similar happen?

Here is an example of the display name changing:

Example

Here is a confirmation that we are set to English:

Language

We're on Sitecore 7.5

so there are only some items in Core where this has happened? Do you have any tools like the github.com/Verndale-Corp/Sitecore-Language-Migration-Tool installed? — Christian Hagelid
Did you accidentally copy over files from the Japanese version of Sitecore 7.5? — Ian Graham

Jan Bluemink Jan Bluemink · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-31T06:23:51

There a 2 languages in the Sitecore CMS, the Content Language en the Client Language.

It looks like you change the Client Language to ja-JP. You can set the Client Language for each user in the User Manager, and a default in the web.config

      <!--  CLIENT LANGUAGE
            Specifies the default language of the Sitecore client if no language
            could be determined in any other way.
      -->
      <setting name="ClientLanguage" value="en"/>

Another point there is a \App_Config\Include\ja-JP.config.example file. maybe you have rename it to .config?

And there is a installed Japanese (ja-JP): Client Translations

Sitecore Core DB Items Changed Language?

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