Language switching automatically to Japanese on websites

Hi-

No real clear cut solution.....
I noticed on Blogger (opened in Japanese for me) that there is a language selection window in the upper right hand corner. After selection of English, susequent access was in English. Ican assume, though, that once cookies/cache are cleared, the "automatic routing due to location of query" will return to Japanese.
I have noticed this with a few sites, over the years, and some have no recourse. Disney, Logitech, among others, automatically redirect to Japanese, and won't allow navigation to the English site without some major effort. A real PITA!
So, no real solution to offer, just wanted to share my experience. Figure that some of these sites would require a mirrored IP address from the mainland to reach English.........

Yes, the option would be nice. Its seems to be a preference directed on the site/server end, though. Near as I can tell it is IP origin dictated.
If you find a solution, let us know. The sites with this "convenience" are proliferating....

Funny thing is, it's not limited to websites. When I first installed Tiger, the only way I could get around the setup language being changed to Japanese, was to make my address my old US address.
At least, now, you can continue to enter in English, with fields in English, even though location is Japan. Still bugs me, though, how last name first, and first name last won't change...... 😟
Heck, I didn't have an Apple ID until 2006 because the system kept directing me to Apple.jp!!!

I have the same problem where I am at. Itunes went as far as to reply to me in Italian when I first authorized my computer thru the Itunes store. The only thing I could make out was the 2 out of 5 authorized. I have found that after safari goes to the english version it tends to remember it.

weedkila wrote:
But since Camino seems to override/ignore the server's redirection command you would think it wouldn't be too difficult to come up with a fix so that it works for other browsers too.

I just looked and Camino uses the languages you have set up in the International preferences page. So, for example, I have my International pane set up with English at the top, then German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, etc., etc. When I look at the HTTP headers Camino sends, it sends this for HTTPACCEPTLANGUAGE:

en-US,en;q=0.9,de;q=0.8,fr;q=0.7,ja;q=0.6,it;q=0.5,es;q=0.4,nl;q=0.3,sv;q=0.2,nb;q=0.1

So, assuming my web server is set up with multiple pages, I get English pages. But if I set up my web server correctly, if I switched to German as my preferred language, I'd get German pages if I had some.

Since Safari is only sending "en" in that header, I'm not sure where is getting its language setting. I'd be curious to see what you get if you go to this site:

http://pgl.yoyo.org/http/browser-headers.php

I also get just English with Firefox, but it's a bit more elaborate:

en-us,en;q=0.5

However, I did find the setting in Firefox for languages (Preferences > Advanced > General), and sure enough, if I change it to German, I get a German page at Blogger.

And here's what I see for the language header:

de,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3

There is a page at the Apache web site that explains content negotiation like this.

charlie

Is your current browser Safari? If so, have you tried another one, like FireFox, to see if it has the same problem?

I tried Firefox and it did the same thing. However Camino displayed the site in English w/out switching

That's odd, because FireFox and Camino are essentially the same browser underneath.

Try this.

Finder>yourname>Caches. Locate com.apple.CharPalette.Cache.plist

Trash it and reboot.