Alright Mozilla/internet Explorer, I May Be In Thailand, But That Doesn't Mean I Can Read Thai!

[Girlaboutglobe]

Anyone else having trouble with webpages coming up in Thai (ie Google, Microsoft, Yahoo)? It wouldn't be such a pain if I could read the Thai enough to find the "change language" link on these sites.... but then if I could do that I probably wouldn't need to change the language in the first place.....

Does anybody know if there's a way to change the settings for internet explorer or firefox so that pages will automatically display in English when available? I've looked, but can't find!

[A_Traveller]

The quickest way to alleviate the problem for Google is to set the home page to www.google.com/ncr {no country requested}. This will give you Google in English with a Go to Google Thailand option. This step usually affects the drop down search {top right} so that will stop defaulting to locale. Problem is that language settings are scattered between the OS and the browser, leading to these 'helpful' glitches.

Regards

[basjke]

Probably you will have to change your regional and language options as they will be set to thai.Go on your computer to control panel>regional and language options>languages>details and change it to english.Change it also in the advanced tabpage and in regional options.

Edited October 20, 2007 by basjke

[Girlaboutglobe]

Thanks you guys, I'll give it a go!!

[stumonster]

I always use http://www.google.com/intl/eng/

[Girlaboutglobe]

I always use http://www.google.com/intl/eng/

I'll try that too, thanks stu!

[ignis]

Found when I came here to live I changed my home address from UK to Thailand, often a few pages would open in Thai, I changed my PC back to UK and the the pages always appear in English...

Believe that if your address in Thailand then anything you install/download will look for the Thai version... sure an expert would know??

[Girlaboutglobe]

Changing the location makes sense, can you set your clock independently of location?

Cheers!

[ignis]

Changing the location makes sense, can you set your clock independently of location?

Cheers!

Yes sure.. Control Panel > Date,Time,Language and Regional Option > Regional Language Option > Regional Option > Drop down menu = English UK and at bottom Location = Thailand…….

While your in there you can go to Language > in details can add other languages [myself have 1^st UK English, 2^nd Thai, 3^rd German]

[JetsetBkk]

I use this Google IP address: http://72.14.205.104/

It comes up with this: