I think that Michael mentioned Google something = results in German from Google. So it does not look like windows specific issue.
I do not know how to correct this Google tracking s(tuff) - but I would like to know - it annoys me greatly when traveling around to places I do not understand. It is great fun to google something, especially in places with non- Latin based characters like Thai, Arabic, Asian pictograms, etc. Tomas On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 11:45 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I am running CentOS 7 in Virtualbox with Windows 10 as the host > > system. Oddly, firefox inside virtualbox defaults to german when I > > google National Instruments Labview Linux. Tried firefox host side > > on Windows 10, english. I tried installing Chrome to CentOS 7, > > still german. I think Windows 10 is somehow requesting German on > > me. > > I suspect bad geolocate data. Windows is actually telling it > english somehow, but without that override your getting german. > Windows has a notion of your native language, that is set > when you do an install. Most Linux's and BSD's I have seen > do not have any notion of your native language set during > the install. > > I just returned from Prague and had a heck of a time getting > anything but my windows VM to return english. > > > -- Michael C. Robinson _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
