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Child of the One True King
Originally Posted by
Sparko
So why not just set your pc to us or U.K. English?
because US English Locale puts all the dates and things wrong. And UK English locale wants to use the £ symbol on all currency figures (so spreadsheets and the like)
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Originally Posted by
Raphael
because US English Locale puts all the dates and things wrong. And UK English locale wants to use the £ symbol on all currency figures (so spreadsheets and the like)
Yeah, sometimes Microsoft's automatic helps can be more nuisance than help.
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Child of the One True King
Also I think the other difference is that Cortana tries to adapt to the different accents.
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"If you can ever make any major religion look absolutely ludicrous, chances are you haven't understood it"
-Ravi Zacharias, The New Age: A foreign bird with a local walk
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
"...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
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Originally Posted by
One Bad Pig
Yeah, sometimes Microsoft's automatic helps can be more nuisance than help.
Perhaps not QUITE as bad as "Hello, I'm from the IRS and I'm here to help you..."
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Originally Posted by
Cow Poke
Perhaps not QUITE as bad as "Hello, I'm from the IRS and I'm here to help you..."
Well, yeah. It's perfectly safe to express displeasure at Microsoft "help".
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Originally Posted by
Raphael
because US English Locale puts all the dates and things wrong. And UK English locale wants to use the £ symbol on all currency figures (so spreadsheets and the like)
looking at my cortana settings, it has it's own language setting. So it should be separate from the keyboard and PC language settings.
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Child of the One True King
Originally Posted by
Sparko
looking at my cortana settings, it has it's own language setting. So it should be separate from the keyboard and PC language settings.
cortana-change-language.jpg
I think that's a fairly recent change. It used to be tied into the PC language settings, with no option to change it.
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"If you can ever make any major religion look absolutely ludicrous, chances are you haven't understood it"
-Ravi Zacharias, The New Age: A foreign bird with a local walk
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
"...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
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Ben Witherington III
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