Forum Profile: The Language field doesn't save changes

[coreymckrill]

I was experimenting with changing my user locale for my WP.org account, and the Forum Profile page appears to be the place to do it. However, when I choose a different language in the Language drop-down under the Account section and save, the drop-down reverts to "Site Default" when the page refreshes. And, the locale value in the usermeta table does not change.

To reproduce:

• Go to the Forum Profile page for your account: ​https://wordpress.org/support/users/your-username/edit/
• Choose a language other than "English (United States)" in the language drop-down.
• Click Update Profile.

[dd32]

The language selector seems to work for me, both as a super admin and as a regular user. The user_meta locale key updates to match.

AFAIK the only thing that setting that alters is wp-admin which most people don't have access to, and for many sites on WordPress.org is not properly localised as not all plugins have translations/etc.

It doesn't change any front-end facing things that I know of.

[ocean90]

Fixed in ​[WP47739].