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P4 Visual Client (P4V) Documentation | 2025.4

# Display preferences

You can configure the following P4V display and localization options:

Application:

- Show item count on tabs for the detail sections: For the Pending and Submitted tabs, shows the item count in the Open Files, Files, and Jobs sub-tabs in the tab bar of the details pane (below the list of changelists). Starting with P4V 2025.4, this option is enabled by default for new users.

- Dates: Sets the date format used throughout P4V:

  - OS format: Use the format that your operating system uses.
  - Perforce standard (yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss)
- Show date and time as: Specify whether to show the date and time for the shared P4 Server (Server time) or for your local client.
- Scale application icons based on (requires restart): Select Calculated primary monitor resolution if you mainly view P4V on your primary monitor. If you view P4V on a secondary monitor with a different resolution than the primary monitor, select Custom size and move the slider to the scaling that is right for your secondary monitor.
- Application color scheme (requires restart): Select Light (default) for the classic P4V colors. Select Dark if you prefer light font on a dark background. On the Mac, a third option is System, which matches the current appearance of macOS.

Localization:

- Language used for application menus, labels, and dialogs (requires restart): Select English or one of the installed languages.

- Set encoding for all connections to: Sets the character encoding for connections to unicode-mode P4 Server.

  If you do not set the encoding here, you are prompted to enter the character encoding every time you set up a connection to a unicode-mode P4 Server. The encoding that you set here does not affect connections whose character encoding has already been set at connection. If you are unsure which setting to choose, consult your P4 Server administrator.

- Use the system character encoding in P4 Merge when connected to non-unicode servers: When enabled, overrides P4 Merge’s logic for determining character encoding (to preserve pre-2010.1 behavior).

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