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Old 11-25-2008, 09:24 PM
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Anyone know of a way to generate an NLS file for English (HK SAR)?

This is the reason why my stupid area codes weren't working, because I had my X1 set to English (United States).

This is stupidly fustrating...
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Old 11-25-2008, 11:49 PM
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Windows Mobile 6 Regional Settings Screenshots ?
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Old 11-26-2008, 12:33 AM
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yeah well, they don't have english (Hong kong) on the list. And given that I can't read or write chinese, english is kinda necessary.

However, because so many things are reliant on the regional settings, changing it to Chinese (Hong Kong) really screws me up. I hate having to google in chinese, and there is no way to default it back to english.
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Old 11-26-2008, 02:37 AM
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I think google looks at the IP, not the setting on your system, I have my laptop set to USA and when in HK, Google goes to HK google too, I hate it as well.
You can have settings in google, set it to always search in English.
As long as you keep the cookie, google remebers, I think.

When you change to Chnese(HK) does all the menus change to chinese too?
Or just the Date formats, etc etc change?
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Old 11-26-2008, 03:06 AM
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I use English (Australia) as it is closest to what we really need to use for date, currency and number formats.
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Old 11-26-2008, 03:55 AM
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bloob,

Can you show me what you have as entries in your registry for

HKCU\ControlPanel\Dial\Locations

all 3 keys.

The thing is, changing the regional settings back to HK helped solve my area code problem.
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Old 11-26-2008, 06:20 AM
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how do I check this?
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Old 11-26-2008, 07:08 PM
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You need a registry viewer like resco to open up the registry on your x1
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Old 11-26-2008, 09:21 PM
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Interesting....

So being the stubborn person that I am, I did a few tests.

The test is basically change the regional settings to different english areas to see how this will affect the X1.

English (Canada) - area code screws up on receiving incoming phone calls
English (United States) - area code screws up on receiving incoming phone calls
English (Australia) - everything is peachy (thanks bloob)
English (United Kingdom) - everything is peachy

I'm just at a loss for words on why WM6.1 is like this....and something so fundamental for a phone too....
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Old 11-27-2008, 06:42 AM
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Its basically Windows, and its not the first place that such limitations for locations that I have encountered.
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