# How do I get my web-browser (firefox) from displaying pages in Chinese?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 14, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-web-browser-firefox-from-displaying-pages-in-chinese/407943 "2007-06-14T02:31:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-web-browser-firefox-from-displaying-pages-in-chinese/407943/1 "2007-06-14T02:31:58Z")

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I’ve tried to change the language settings, but since my computer (and myself) are now residing in Taiwan, my web-browsers, both IE and Firefox (though I only use IE when I absolutely have to) want to display pages in Chinese. At first, I says to myself, “Okay, this’ll help me practice my chinese.” But I have since deleted several posts from my website on accident, and other sorts of _bêtises_.

It’s not all websites that display in Chinese. For instance, google always displays in English, yet blogger, flickr, etc. don’t.

謝謝!

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**Author:** ![everywill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@everywill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everywill)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-web-browser-firefox-from-displaying-pages-in-chinese/407943/2 "2007-06-14T03:24:11Z")

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If you go to Tools » Options » Advanced » Languages (Choose), you can change the order of preferred languages, but I don’t know if this is what’s causing your problem.

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**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-web-browser-firefox-from-displaying-pages-in-chinese/407943/3 "2007-06-14T03:58:49Z")

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Already tried, the only two languages I have are English (US) and English (U.K.), but it still shows up in Chinese.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-web-browser-firefox-from-displaying-pages-in-chinese/407943/4 "2007-06-14T07:13:28Z")

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Spyware?

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**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-web-browser-firefox-from-displaying-pages-in-chinese/407943/5 "2007-06-14T17:14:28Z")

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The commies are taking over your computer. Wrap it in tinfoil for now. I’ll speak more when I

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**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-web-browser-firefox-from-displaying-pages-in-chinese/407943/6 "2007-06-14T17:20:22Z")

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I think it might be those websites reading your IP and deciding you are in a chinese speaking local.

For example with blogger you can explicitly set your language here: [http://www.blogger.com/language.g](http://www.blogger.com/language.g).

For Flickr, look on the bottom of the main page.

LarsenMTL