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It’s unfortunate how much everything is America centric. Even in tiny details, such as Office and Teams defaulting to American instead of English even when inst

• NeoTar 3y ago
  And printers defaulting to ‘letter’ sized paper (rather than A4) no matter where in the world you seem to be!
• greggsy 3y ago
  It's a problem in Australia too, but I firmly believe that's just an oversight which has been de-prioritised in favour of other junk, rather than an imaginary attempt to export some form of linguistic imperialism.
• blooalien 3y ago
  The issue re; Office and Teams is likely simply due to Microsoft being a U.S.A. based company. Many corporations here sadly believe themselves to be the "center of their Universe" and forget about everywhere and everyone else, even when they do business world-wide, or run a business that somehow affects everyone. There's also a long-standing issue with many software developers (especially in corporate environments) not considering issues of "accessibility" by people outside their "local norm" until they're forced to consider the issue. We also have a highly "xenophobic" subset of our population that contribute somewhat to "foreign" language issues as well (which is quite odd, considering how much of our population consists of "immigrants" or the descendants thereof; nearly all of us?), being that we're supposedly "the Great Melting Pot" nation here, as well as being a popular "tourist" destination.
  • lloydatkinson 3y ago
    That's simply not the case. Windows is perfectly capable of telling software what locale, language, and keyboard it's supposed to use. It's sheer laziness.