Android market switching to Chinese

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Elimentals

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Am I the only one this happens to when I try to install Android applications or is it a general thing?

Sometimes when I try to install applications the install window switch to some foreign language for no apparent reason as seen below.

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App in picture is Samba: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.funkyfresh.samba

This does not always happen to the same application, and also not the only application either. I am sure there is some bug within the Google market webpage as I am running dual authentication and checked that my account has only been used from my IP addresses so my Account is fine.
 
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Any of you using Google Chrome perhaps? Seems to be related to a setting, or at least it seemingly can be fixed by changing a setting.

Came across this...

After having tried many things and, in periods, given up, I have now finally managed to change the language of Android Market from Spanish to English. The following applies to Chrome only (presently using 13.0.782.112).

At least in my case, the problem appears to be in the Chrome's language setting (like many others, I already had my Google profile, Calender, etc. with English as my default language).

What I did was to go:

"Wrench" -> Options -> [Under the Bonnet] -> [Languages and spellchecker settings...]:

What I had defined was, in the same order,

English (UK) [default]
Spanish
Danish

I started off deleting what was not English, restarted the browser and noticed that https://market.android.com/ was finally in English.

I then added again the additional languages (maintaining English as my default). Did another reboot and things are still working out.

In the final setting, Chrome for some odd reason (or lack of it) repeats - below my default language - "English":

English (UK) [default]
English
Spanish
Danish

It works for me and hopefully for you too.
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Just ensured that I have no languages specified apart from Enlish (UK) and now even Elemental's original link is in the Queen's language for me. There was an English with no region specified that took a couple of clicks at the "X" to get it to go away though. :wtf:

*edit*

****. Still getting random Spanish in the template, but at least the app details appear to have settled on English... :mad:
 
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HapticSimian said:
Any of you using Google Chrome perhaps? Seems to be related to a setting, or at least it seemingly can be fixed by changing a setting.

Came across this...

Just ensured that I have no languages specified apart from Enlish (UK) and now even Elemental's original link is in the Queen's language for me. There was an English with no region specified that took a couple of clicks at the "X" to get it to go away though. :wtf:

*edit*

****. Still getting random Spanish in the template, but at least the app details appear to have settled on English... :mad:
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Running FF + Linux Mint so its not the browser/OS related?
 
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Im getting spanish, first noticed it yesterday as i normally just work from my phone.

Firefox Windows 2 computers so far.
 
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I suspect some SA IP addresses for whatever method you use to access the internet (ADSL or whatever) resolve as Spanish etc addresses according to the IP address maps Google's market website must be using. When I was still involved in this kind of thing, we had endless hassles due to one block of addresses from the one SA cell provider resolved as coming from Barcelona, Spain. There are probably are more cases like this.
 
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gkm said:
I suspect some SA IP addresses for whatever method you use to access the internet (ADSL or whatever) resolve as Spanish etc addresses according to the IP address maps Google's market website must be using. When I was still involved in this kind of thing, we had endless hassles due to one block of addresses from the one SA cell provider resolved as coming from Barcelona, Spain. There are probably are more cases like this.
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Nope just checked, same problem from my servers in New Zealand. Not an SA IP address issue.

Edit: And Australia....
 
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Yea, been getting spanish, french and chinese once.
 
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