changing safari language

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changing safari language

i have downloaded arabic onto my mac so that i can type in it for class. however, now when i use safari some websites (like youtube and google) are in arabic, even when i have english chosen on the top upper right bar. how can i fix this so that websites appear in english?

Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Nov 2, 2010 8:09 PM

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Answer 1

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 3, 2010 6:48 AM in response to drennan77

i have downloaded arabic onto my mac

What exactly did you download? There is no need to add anything to your mac to type in Arabic.

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Answer 2

Nov 2, 2010 8:17 PM in response to drennan77

HI and welcome....

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Language & Text.

Open Language & Text preferences
Drag your preferred language to the top of the Languages list.

If Safari is open, quit (Command + Q). Relaunch Safari.

Carolyn 🙂

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 3, 2010 7:21 AM in response to drennan77

I choose arabic as a second language, I guess

Make sure that in system prefs/language & text/language you have English at the top of the list and not Arabic. This section has nothing to do with typing. For that you only check a box in the Input Sources section.

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drennan77 Author

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Nov 3, 2010 7:14 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thank you but I've already tried that and it didn't work.

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drennan77 Author

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Nov 3, 2010 7:14 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Yeah, I didn't technically download anything. I choose arabic as a second language, I guess, so that I can switch between which keyboards I use.

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