Lost in blogger.com
Days pass so quickly. I barely noticed it, it has been a month since my last post, and I haven't written anything eversince.
Actually, I got lost, inside blogger.com itself.
Few days after my last post, I intend to write again. But when I logged-in to blogger, everything is in Chinese! I can mutter a few Mandarin when I need to, and somehow decode about 200 Chinese character just enough so I don't get lost on the roads, but find my way around a website in Chinese I'm totally lost. Totally. Plus, I can't seem to remember what change I did to my computer that everything changed to Chinese. Accept it or not, I have to deal with it.
I know somewhere there has to be some setting to change language back to English. Somewhere. But just knowing there is, somewhere, isn't helping. It just make sense there must be, but who knows where?
So off to google some help. But search isn't quite easy. I have to vary my search keywords to get the information I need. Well, always - the way you key-in your keywords affects the quality of search tremendously.
Fast-forward to after many google searching, I stumbled to this webpage : http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-change-language-if-you-are.html, and what a relief!
There are people out there like me living in foreign countries whose writing they don't understand. In my case, I'm living in Taiwan and Chinese writings always looks like graffiti to me. I believe there are also a lot of Pinoys living here in Taiwan, and probably many got lost in blogger too.
The link above helps, well, to some extent. As you see the sample shown is in English; and of course the "Change Language" link there is really clear. If you are adept in English, and wanting to change to your mother tounge, it's a quick solve. But if you were default to non-English language, that "Change Language" link is also non-English, and you want to change to English, you are still lost!
In my case, I was default to Chinese after I logged in, and even if I'm staring at my profile already, no way that I knew the 3rd link down from my photo is the one elusive help I'm looking for, because it's in Chinese also! It looks like this:
I wrote a moment above that the link helps to some extent. I wrote so because you'd need to correlate the sample in the link I wrote above, and your "foreign-language-profile" - match link's positions that is. To some eyes out there not specially trained doing so, including mine, you'd probably squint a few times before figuring it out. Mind you, squinting gives you headache.
Now I'm off writing again!
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Alternate solution:
I thought there could be other way to change blogger.com language without using the help (re: link ) I used, and of effectively avoiding link's position comparison that's sure to strain your eyes. I found another method on my own. Do this:
1. Login to blogger.com ( I prefer not to use www.blogger.com as is, I use a surefire-english-start-page. Your choice).
2. Go to www2.blogger.com/language.g. There you will be given language selection. Be sure to "Save Settings".
3. Sign out. The signout link is the link on the upper-rightmost link in the page after you login to blogger.
4. Re-login, use any of the links in #1, above. Everything should be in English now.
Cheers!
