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How to Set Up Your Browsing Language?

Table of Contents

  1. Prefix
  2. Firefox
  3. Mozilla
  4. Internet Explorer
  5. Opera 6

Prefix

Currently 3 languages are supported by Tavern: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English. It will choose appropriate language version according to your settings. If all these 3 languages are not in your system default, and if you don’t know how to set your preferred language, you’ll be asked to choose a language for every page you visited. Also, if the system default preferred language is not your preferred one, you’ll have to switch to your preferred language for every page.

The detailed steps to set your preferred language are described below.

Mozilla

From the top toolbar of Mozilla, select (E)ditPr(e)ferences, to pop up a Preferences window. Double-click the Browser from the Category on the left, will open a submenu. Click the Language option in that submenu. It will pop up an Add New Languages window. Add all the languages you like, such as Chinese (Taiwan) [zh-tw], Chinese (China) [zh-cn], English [en], Japanese [ja]. Remember to add the English, so that English is displayed when no appropriate language is available on some websites.

Click(U)p or(D)own to adjust your preference order. When you surf the web, websites will check your preferred languages in order, and if one language is available, it will show that language.

If you are using WINDOWS 2000/Me/XP, you can install the necessary fonts for the languages from the control panel. If you are not, you can start the Internet Explorer and go to Windows Update, to install the language supports you need. Mozilla will choose the appropriate fonts automatically.

Internet Explorer

Start your Internet Explorer. From the Tools on the top toolbar, choose Internet Options.... In the popped-up Internet Options window, click the General at the top to move to the General page. Click the Languages... at the bottom. It will pop up a Language Preferences window. Click Add... to pop up an Add Language window. Choose the languages you can read from the Language: list, such as Chinese (Taiwan) [zh-tw], Chinese (China) [zh-cn], English [en], Japanese [ja], etc. Don’t forget to add the English [en] as a last fallback if all your preferred languages are not available on the website. Then click OK to add them.

You could choose a language from the Language: list in the Language Preferences window, and click Move Up or Move Down to change its preference order. When you surf the web, the websites may check the preferred languages in order, and send the first available language version of the same content.

If you are using WINDOWS 2000/Me/XP, you could install the necessary fonts for the languages from the Control Panel. If not, you could go to Windows Update, to install the specific language supports.

Opera 6

Start your Opera. From the File on the top toolbar, choose Preferences.... In the popped-up window titled Preferences, choose the Languages at the left. In the Web pages at the right, click Add... to pop up an Accept Language window. Choose the language you can read from the list under Select Web language in language, such as Chinese (Taiwan) [zh-tw], Chinese (China) [zh-cn], English [en], Japanese [ja], etc., and click OK to add it. Don’t forget to add the English [en] as a last fallback if all your preferred languages are not available on the website.

You could choose a language from the list under Preferred languages for Web pages in Web pages in the Preferences window, and click Move up or Move down to change its preference order. When you surf the web, the websites may check the preferred languages in order, and send the first available language version of the same content.

If you are using WINDOWS 2000/Me/XP, you could install the necessary fonts for the languages from the Control Panel. If not, you could go to Windows Update, to install the specific language supports.

by imacat, first written 2001-12-22, last updated 2006-04-06