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)

1. Right-click on the My Computer icon on the Windows Desktop, and select Properties from the drop-down list that appears.
2. In the System Properties window, click the Advanced tab.
3. Click the Environment Variables button.

   The User and System environment variables window appears.

4. In the User variables for <userlogin> section, click New.
5. In the Variable Name text field type: MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE
6. In the Variable Value text field type: en_US
7. Launch Maya.
   NoteIf 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.

To run Maya in English within a Japanese environment (Mac OS X)

1. Temporarily set the language to English within International preferences section of the Systems Preferences.