peter green wrote:

>> 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.

And if the blue square isn't there, of if "EN" doesn't pop it, it often
takes under a minute to put it there.

Gerhard

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