Many existing Japanese users of Maya may already be comfortable working within the English language user interface of Maya.
If you’re working on a Windows operating system with a Japanese language environment and want to use Maya in English, you
can do so by setting the MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE environment variable.
To run Maya in English within a Japanese environment (Windows)
- Right-click on the icon on the Windows Desktop, and select from the drop-down list that appears.
- In the window, click the Advanced tab.
- Click the button.
The User and System environment variables window appears.
- In the > section, click .
- In the text field type: MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE
- In the text field type: en_US
- Launch Maya.
Note
If you later want to run Maya in Japanese you can set User Environment Variable Value to ja_JP or remove the variable from the list of User Environment Variables.
ImportantYou must set the MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE environment variable via the System Preferences. Seting this environment variable in the
Maya.env file does not affect Maya behavior.
To run Maya in English within a Japanese environment (Mac OS X)
- Temporarily set the language to English within International preferences section of the Systems Preferences.