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Configure the indexing language

Changing the indexing language defined in Confluence Cloud may improve the accuracy of your search results, especially if the majority of the content of your site is in a language other than English. Confluence Cloud supports content indexing in English (default), German, Russian, Chinese, CJK, Custom Japanese, French, Portuguese, Czech and Greek.

To configure the indexing language:

  1. If you aren’t already there, go to your Confluence Cloud instance.

  2. Select the wheel icon () in the top-right corner to open Confluence administration.

  3. Find Settings in the left-hand navigation.

  4. Select Configuration > General configuration.

  5. Scroll down to Internationalization.

  6. Select the Indexing language from the dropdown list.

  7. Select Save indexing language changes.

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