Interface and text

The menus can be German. The essay can be Thai. Those are different settings.

WPS Office ships a long interface-language list: English, Indonesian, German, Spanish, French, Thai, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and more. Vendor copy for the free Standard tier has talked about roughly 46 languages. This page separates UI language, proofing language, and the fonts that make a script actually print.

Official WPS site Fonts and fidelity
Writer at a desk working on documents that may use more than one language

What “46 languages” is trying to say

Kingsoft’s free-tier marketing in this era bundles three claims: about 47 file formats, about 46 languages, about 1 GB of cloud. The language number is a vendor-rounded count of interface locales and related packs, not a promise that every proofing dictionary is as good as a dedicated tool, and not a promise that every language is a first-class typesetting system. English is the locale this handbook is written in. The product’s deeper history is Chinese-language computing — see history — with a later export layer that added the list you see in Settings.

If your language is missing from the UI picker, you can still type it in the document if a font exists. UI language and document language are not the same switch. People mix them up, then file a “WPS does not support French” report because the ribbon stayed in English while the body was already French. Switch the right control.

Languages you should expect to find

Desktop and mobile builds commonly include at least:

Additional locales appear depending on the installer, the store region, and whether a language pack downloaded after first run. Chinese-language options are part of the product’s home market even when an English Play listing (cn.wps.moffice_eng) is what you installed. Open the language or general settings pane and scroll. Do not download a “language crack” from a forum. Official builds get official packs through the same channel you used to install: wps.com/download, Store, Play, or App Store.

Switching the interface without reinstalling

On desktop, look under Settings, General, or a language menu — labels move by version. Pick the UI language, then restart the suite if the ribbon stays mixed. A mixed ribbon (English Home tab, German dialog) usually means a pack is half-applied or a window was not restarted. Close all Writer, Spreadsheet, Presentation, and PDF windows. Open one. If it is still wrong, check whether you have two installs (Store plus website) fighting.

On Android and iOS, the app may follow the system language or offer an in-app override. Change one, then the other, if the first attempt does nothing. The web version follows the account or the site locale. A public library PC can be stuck in a language you do not read; use the language icon on the page if you can find it, or download the file and open it locally.

Proofing is not the ribbon

Spellcheck and grammar hints use a proofing language. Set it per document or per selection when you write bilingual work — a common student and teacher case. A German quote inside an English essay should be marked German if you do not want a sea of red underlines. Proofing quality varies. Do not trust it for a legal contract or a graded translation exam. Human pass, then PDF freeze.

Right-to-left scripts and complex shaping depend on fonts and on how complete that build’s layout engine is. If characters separate or join wrongly, it is often a font or direction setting, not a “download more languages” button on a search ad. The same font lesson that breaks Calibri on Ubuntu breaks Thai or Japanese if the machine only has Latin faces. Install licensed fonts. Linux users should expect extra work.

Keyboards, shortcuts, and IME

An IME (for Chinese, Japanese, and others) is an operating-system feature. WPS inherits it. Learn the OS shortcut to switch input sources. Do not install a random “WPS IME booster.” Editing shortcuts — Ctrl+B, Ctrl+S, F5 — stay on the modifier keys. They do not change because the UI is Polish. Menu access keys that use underlined letters can change because the words changed. When you teach a mixed-language staff in a small business, teach the modifiers, not the leftover Alt chords from an English screenshot.

Mac users remember Command instead of Ctrl. That is in the Mac notes. Windows users on 7 through 11 are on the Windows page. Hardware floors (dual-core, 2 GB RAM, 4 GB disk per Kingsoft help) do not change by language pack. A language pack is small compared with cache and templates.

Templates, AI, and honesty

A template gallery in English is not a localization of your labor law. A German invoice template can still have the wrong tax line. Read every generated string. WPS AI will happily draft in the language you prompt. Daily limits on Pro+ still apply. Invented citations are still invented. See pricing and security before you paste confidential text in another language into a cloud box, thinking the language makes it private. It does not.

Store ratings do not measure translation quality. A 4.5 on Play or 4.8 on the App Store (Gizmodo, August 2026) can sit next to a clumsy locale. If a translation is wrong, keep the UI in a language you can verify and type the document in the language you need.

A practical language checklist

  1. Install from official channels only.
  2. Set UI language. Restart the whole suite.
  3. Set proofing language on the selection or document.
  4. Confirm fonts for every script you will print.
  5. Export PDF and open it on a second device.
  6. Teach coworkers the modifier shortcuts, not English-only Alt keys.

Related: other suites if you need a stronger proofing tool, downloads, clean exit if you installed the wrong regional build twice, iOS, Android.