How to Change Global Language Settings for Epic

How can I change the language for games to something other than English?

Follow these steps to change the global language setting for your Epic Games library through Junk Store. Please note that this will only work for games that download different language packs automatically as part of the install.

Step 1

You will need to create an epic_overrides.sh file in the following folder path:

~/homebrew/data/Junk-Store/epic_overrides.sh

Step 2

In the Junk-Store subfolder, right click and select Create New > Text File.

Name it epic_overrides.sh and click OK.

Step 3

Open epic_overrides.sh with a text editor, I used Kate, and add the following line of text with the standard language code for the language you are wanting to change it to.

For example this is changing it to Spanish - es_ES (Espania).
export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8

This would set it to English - en_EN.

export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8

If you are unsure of the language code to use you can find them at the following link:

Dyspatch Language Code Standards

That’s it! Remember this will only work for games that download language packages automatically.

Where to find more information or help:

If you have any other issues check out our Wiki FAQ, Troubleshooting and How To pages. If you can’t find what you are looking for there then jump in discord or on to reddit at r/JunkStore and have a look there.