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 Post subject: ot my computer has language issues
PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:24 am 
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first my juno records sites kept defaulting to spanish
i set it to english and then click on a link to see this weeks releases and whammo it reverts back to espanol.
http://www.juno.co.uk/

now my myspace suddendly defaults to a beta finnish language version. and its not even april 1st. any ideas what i can do? thnx a

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 Post subject: Re: ot my computer has language issues
PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:44 am 
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to get english i was able to click myspace canada, but now everytime i log in it asks me eng or french and tells me it will focus on canadian bands etc. haaalp!

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Ras Adam wrote:
to get english i was able to click myspace canada, but now everytime i log in it asks me eng or french and tells me it will focus on canadian bands etc. haaalp!



Canada has better bands than America.

I wouldn't complain.

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Ras Adam wrote:
first my juno records sites kept defaulting to spanish
i set it to english and then click on a link to see this weeks releases and whammo it reverts back to espanol.
http://www.juno.co.uk/

I'm showing the default as English, which makes sense, because its a UK site. I've often found that choosing languages other then the default causes problems like that -- it'll keep going back to the default. Make sure you're going to the URL above and you should always get English. The other languages will have other endings besides the one above, which is the default index page. :pharaoh:

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now my myspace suddendly defaults to a beta finnish language version. and its not even april 1st. any ideas what i can do? thnx a

I've seen MySpace in numerous languages, but again, myspace.com is always an English default. You're either typing in something else or getting re-directed.

I also wonder if the language setting for your computer has been reset? A lot of sites will detect that and act accordingly. But anything that is *just* myspace.com will default to English. Canadian sites use the ".ca" Canada country code. :queen:

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its really weird i'll type juno.com and then it will flip over to es
for espana

frustrating

i finally got myspace back to usa but no clue why it flipped to finnish of all things

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Ras Adam wrote:
its really weird i'll type juno.com and then it will flip over to es
for espana

frustrating

i finally got myspace back to usa but no clue why it flipped to finnish of all things


haha I switched mine to Canada for funsies.

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Ras Adam wrote:
its really weird i'll type juno.com and then it will flip over to es
for espana

frustrating

i finally got myspace back to usa but no clue why it flipped to finnish of all things

myspace mobile always has me in like germany on my phone, and facebook frequently has eastern european ads for me. not sure what causes it.

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 Post subject: Re: ot my computer has language issues
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adamargyle wrote:
myspace mobile always has me in like germany on my phone, and facebook frequently has eastern european ads for me. not sure what causes it.

One big issue is content negotiation. This works well if your browser is set up correctly, but many people don't mess with those settings normally and there are many ways they might be inadvertently changed. I think language preference on a website should be manually chosen, but some web developers prefer the automatic choice by your browser.

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