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Beckhoff ESI import german text

Forum: Engineering 🇬🇧

Creator: somlioy

Created: 2026-07-28

Updated: 2026-07-28

somlioy - 2026-07-28

Hi

When I import beckhoff ethercat esi files the devices installs with german text, how to get it in english?
I can see in the xml files that they have both english and german texts ...

downloaded from here
https://download.beckhoff.com/download/configuration-files/io/ethercat/xml-device-description

Beckhoff_EtherCAT_XML.zip

Last edit: somlioy 2026-07-28

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somlioy - 2026-07-28

Solved. Had to explicitly select English inside CODESYS as language instead of system default, which for my case is norwegian...

Open Tools → Options → International Settings

Set the development-system language to English

Restart codesys

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