Languages

Suede's interface is available in ten languages. The site reads in whichever you choose, and Arabic and Hebrew are laid out right-to-left throughout.

Choosing a language

Pick your language under Settings → Appearance. The choice is per device: it is remembered in that browser and applies the next time you open Suede on it, the same way the theme and text-size preferences work. Choosing Arabic or Hebrew switches the whole interface to a right-to-left layout.

Interface language vs. results language

These are two different settings, and they do not have to agree:

• Interface language is the language of Suede itself — menus, buttons, labels, this documentation — and is one of the ten above.
• Results language is the language Suede asks for in search results, set by the hl preference (and the hl API parameter). It covers a wider set of about fifteen languages, because it selects the language of the pages you find rather than the language of the controls around them.

So you can read Suede's interface in English while asking for results in French, or read the interface in Japanese while searching in English — whichever pair suits you.