How to change default language to French

Question

I am working with Magento 2.1.7 and I want to set up a website that will completely display in French.

I did install the community version, 2.1.7 of it and it works well.

But I am trying to change the default language to French and it's a bit hard to do (Two weeks later, It is still not done).

I did change the language to French in Store configuration > General :

But everything is still in English.

I found a lot of tutorials on that issue. But they all talk about previous versions of Magento 2.x. This one (the 2.1.7) seems a bit different.

Can anybody help me find out How to Change The Default Language To French or another language?

First you have to install language pack for magento2 ,and for admin side you can set from edit user — Feedlay Technologies, Aug 7, 2017 at 16:28
I have try a lot of times to install the language first. But when I copy the french package's key from magento I can see no place to put in on the site. In fact the rutorials that I have seen show a different interface. So that I don't know where to go to install the language package. — Georges Amos, Aug 7, 2017 at 16:36

Feedlay Technologies · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-08 02:56:37Z

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For translate you have to install language pack. For that download language pack and put at magentoroot/app/i18n/vendor/fr_fr ref: Magento 2 : How to install new language pack

Change language of frontend : Store > Configuration > General > Locale Options

Change language of backend : System > All Users > Click Any User and change Interface Locale

Then fire below commands:

answered Aug 8, 2017 at 2:56

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After a very long time it did work. Wouah! Such a very hard work. But finally. Thank you so much.
– Georges Amos
Aug 8, 2017 at 16:06

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elaka · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-08 02:57:27Z

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This is what you need to do :

answered Aug 6, 2017 at 22:04

elaka

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But it generates an error :
– Georges Amos
Aug 7, 2017 at 15:54
Package "mageplaza/magento-2-french-language-pack" listed for update is not installed. Ignoring. Loading composer repositories with package information [Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "repo.magento.com/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo fa iled: H¶te inconnu. failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: H¶te inconnu.
– Georges Amos
Aug 7, 2017 at 16:15
This happens when I type the line "composer update mageplaza/magento-2-french-language-pack"
– Georges Amos
Aug 7, 2017 at 16:16
I do it on command line. A username and password are been asked to me. I feel them with my admin user and password. Then that error displays...
– Georges Amos
Aug 7, 2017 at 16:17
please see my updated answer
– elaka
Aug 8, 2017 at 3:00

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