And now for something completely different...

[sluggo0]

Could be they have something hard-coded to detect 'English-US', but that seems unlikely... I just know it's the 'default' way some people define 'english', even though American and heck even Canadian like I speak is NOT english .

I've seen loads of example code on the net that's just plain wrong in this regard, because it incorrectly determines the language (helps all the RFCs are stupidly overcomplicated for dealing with that, and that there are at least 3 English variants alone).

Or, coudl just be something is temporarily confused, and will sort itself .

[akede]

I use Firefox and have the same problem. Whenever I load Ryzom.com to a new tab in a new session it presents in French until I log in and then rolls to English.

[kuroari]

Hehe awesome my IE takes me to a french ryzom.com site too

answer - use firefox!


(the above comments were made in good-humor and this problem should prob be looked at)

[thlau]

Language settings is set to English UK

[en-gb] doesn't work for my either. Just add [en] and/or [en-us] to your preferred languages. That should solve your problem. It worked for me, but I prefer firefox or mozilla instead of the IE.

[magick1]

I appear it is the way IE handles the cookie the site sends (I18N_LANGUAGE=en).
That, and the server behaves strangely (doesn't work with the good old telnet to port 80 :confused . But every browser I have tried (even Lynx ) return a page in English.
Haven't tried Trinis suggestion yet (I am in Linux at the moment and to lasy to launch Wine ).

[simiant]

Sites that 'save' your settings such as language preferences and such usually do so via cookies. Although some cookies could be used to 'track' your activity, cookies are not malware like a lot of scanner programs like to think. Make sure you are not actively denying cookies in your IE settings, under the windows control panel, internet settings, Privacy. Microsoft is known to be somewhat messy when it comes to such things, which is why the usual suggestion is not to use IE.. which is in fact a very good idea, including not using outlook and related. Most internet worms and such come in on that software, not others (lots of open holes in em) - not that firefox is 100% secure either, but there are a lot less exploitable holes in it. And one is just asking for a 'virus' when using outlook.

Ok now you may start the flames, but keep it civil :]

[sprite]

I added [en-us] (*shudder*) and [en] (apparently the caribbean speaks just "english" while everyone else speaks some variant... funnily enough I thought the English invented it ) and so far it always shows up in English for me using IE

[khyle]

I added [en-us] (*shudder*) and [en] (apparently the caribbean speaks just "english" while everyone else speaks some variant... funnily enough I thought the English invented it ) and so far it always shows up in English for me using IE

Specifying [en] should suffice. The site's default is french, and the default for english speakers is English [en]. [en-gb], [en-ca], [en-ie], [en-nz] etc.pp. are local variations, which are served if available. If there's no [en-gb] document available and you didn't ask for [en], the default (french) will be served.

hth

[mehanson]

<snip>... funnily enough I thought the English invented it ...

Sorry, not a chance "English" isn't a language, its an amalgam of languages. Even that varient spoken by "proper Brits" is an amalgam of many languages. Its what makes it so darn difficult to learn, and why the Royals seem to be speaking a different language than the Liverpooleans or Aussies or Canadians or US New Englanders or US Southerners or US Cajuns or ... Well, you get the idea.

And very little of what we call "English" acutally originated or evolved in England. In fact, I think Irish, Scottish, and Welsh have more claim on the label "English" than the amalgam of languages we call "English" today.

[sprite]

Sorry, not a chance

I'm aware of the etymology of the English language. Doesn't change the rest of my post