> Have you ever tried to send messages from a PC which thinks that you
> want to converse in Chinese and is utterly dedicated to ensuring that
> you do so ? :-). When sending emails from Taiwan I have been forced on
> occasion to use Alt-nnn combinations to obtain "English" text or even
> to cutting and pasting letters from other messages. I'm certain that
> there would have been easy ways to convince said PCs that I wanted to
> actually produce the characters shown on the keyboards that I was
> using, but I could not at the time find anyone who could both
> understand my question and answer it.
>   
If its running windows and you see a blue square with a language code in 
the system tray try clicking on it. You may well find an english option 
in the list that pops up.


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