In the last few months we resolved a bug that prevented English from being set in Jira’s preferences if your browser had another language set in its own preferences. Thank you for the effort you’ve all put into detailing the issue with changing Jira’s language and the steps you’ve taken to get it working. In the Preferred Languages list, set the desired language to be your primary language by dragging it to the top of the list. In the Default language for users box, choose the language in which Microsoft SQL Server should display system messages. To change the display language for Office for Mac, you need to set a different primary language for your operating system: On the Apple menu, choose System Preferences > Language & Region. In Object Explorer, right-click a server and select Properties. Note that due to the way the preferences are implemented across applications, you may see a short delay between updating the language on your Atlassian ID and it taking effect in Jira and Confluence. To configure the default language option. To change this, scroll down a little, Under Preferred languages, pick your preferred language ( English Canada in my case.
Please visit the link above to set the language preferences for your Atlassian account. The first language under the Preferred languages is the default language.
Rather than the preferences set individually in Jira and Confluence. Earlier this week, Atlassian accounts began honoring the language preferences set for an entire Atlassian account at: