Foreign browser

[Tom Brown]

I regularly work in Korea and when I open IE6, many times, it opens up in
the Korean equivalent. Is there any way to force IE to open up in the
English version disregarding where my computer is located?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Hans Le Roy]

Hi Tom,

I guess you do not mean that IE speaks Korean (even if that is what you are
saying). IE cannot just switch languages.

I suppose you mean some web pages are rendered in Korean, and you want them
to display in English. You don't give us examples, so we have to guess. This
is mine: you are visting a website that detects the IP address of the
visitor and inferes the language from that IP address. If taht's the case,
there is not much you can do.

Kind regards

Hans

 

[Tom Brown]

Yes, that is exactly what I meant. When I am in the hotel in Korea, somehow
IE detects that and offers my home page (such as Yahoo.com) in Korean
characters. If I can find an ENGLISH hyperlink, I can just click it but
sometimes its not even written in English so I don't know that's the button
to get an English version..

It seems to me that I ought be be able to specify in IE that I only want to
see the English language version of IE.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Look in IE Tools | Internet Options | General | Languages: If English is at
the top of the list or it's the only language listed, the language-version
of the page in question is being determined by a cookie. Not much you can
do about that.

 

[Tom Brown]

Right.

It seems like it would be a good idea to be able to override the cookie (on
MY machine) and not let it show up in a foreign language. But, I guess I
expect too much from worldwide technology these days. At the root of it,
isn't a cookie supposed to make it more convenient for a user? If I am
looking something in a foreign language, it doesn't do of us any good.

You've heard the old phrase about a "pig looking at a digital wristwatch?"
Well, that's me trying to see my home page on Yahoo.com in Korean.

Tom

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

...At the root of it,

isn't a cookie supposed to make it more convenient for a user?

You'd think so, wouldn't you? In the real world, the cookie makes things
more efficient for the website!
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