Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2:23 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Marvel wrote:
>>> When in Japan on the network
>>> The ISP is Japanese and when I Google something Internet Explorer 7
>>> automatically brings up the Japanese page.
>>> How to get the English version of stuff?.
>>> I don't want the Japanese versions
>>>  running Vista.
>> Uninstall Vista and replace it with an OS that works.  At the very
>> least, use a real web browser like Firefox.
>>
>> ... and you can also force your location setting to US and English ...
>> somehow, but not being a WIN or IE user, I don't know the secret
>> handshake nor the magic incantation you recite while you twist the Magic
>> Decoder Ring.
>>
>> In Firefox, it's three clicks of the mouse ...
> 
> I have IE, firefox and chrome installed, and while IE is a pain I
> usually persist in using it since that is what about 80% of the end
> users of my services use. The attitude that pervades IE & microsoft
> seems to pervade everywhere though. It still pisses me off that every
> second month or so youtube decides to completely reset all my
> preferences to Japanese, apparently on the basis of my IP.

I try not to miss opportunities to whine, pout, and bitch at content 
providers and the folks whose software, driver CDs and web sites 
automatically choose an installation or display language without asking. 
  So far, only H-P has seemed to listen, adding a "Select default 
language" window to their installation routines for Linux (HP Toolbox). 
  Setup takes less than three minutes.  Sadly, installing software for 
the same printer on my wife's WIN XP-J laptop took over 30 minutes, when 
it installed correctly, and the damned CD kept burbling away in English, 
and then Japanese, switching to long-form Chinese at odd moments, no 
matter what we tried.  And, when it got to the hardware installation, it 
completely changed character encoding specs (I _think_ from ShiftJIS to 
EUC) and the screen went completely mojibake, replacing all characters 
with question marks.

-- 
CL