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#240421 12/02/2010 12:30 AM
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I have the Thai language installed on my computers. It is my wife's native language, and she visits Thai sites. Obviously, I keep English as the default, and hardly ever switch, but the character set is there.

Oddly, when I go to log in to Facebook, the login page comes up completely in Thai. No other site does that (other than the ones from Thailand!). I click the "login" button, and Facebook comes up in English, although the Thai characters show (of course) in some posts by my Thai friends.

I also notice that the Facebook "Like" button (and text) here shows up in Thai.

Why is that? I realize that it has nothing to do with Threads, but I know there are a lot of smart people here. I'm sure there are others here with multiple languages running.


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SteveS #240425 12/02/2010 10:13 AM
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That's Facebook for ya. More than likely when you wife visits it's setting a cookie that says 'Hey, this computer uses the Thai language' and thats what you get until you login under 'your' account.


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Make sure the language is set to English (bottom left corner should have a language selector). Once it's changed it'll keep trying to "customize" it back to whatever it was last set to on FaceBook... Really annoying...


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As is most of Facebook.


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My "Like" button is in English today, and I did nothing to change it! laugh


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