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Re: wgt.com home page

• garyk49 2,330 Posts

  Tue, Jun 8 2021 12:13 PM

   

  If you, like just me now.  Opened up the wgt.com home page and it was in German, scroll to the bottom of the page and select EN if you want English.

  Of course, wgt doesn't do anything on the fly.  Sarcasm off.

• KenBTEXAS 308 Posts

  Tue, Jun 8 2021 12:20 PM

  Thanks for that.

  mine started showing up in spanish a few days ago..

  couldn't figure out how to fix it :(

   

• ScottHope 10,427 Posts

  Tue, Jun 8 2021 1:25 PM

  I suppose if it happens with annoying regularity, you could add the language query string to your shortcut url.

  "What?!?!?"

  Lol. If when you click on your shortcut to open up WGT, it opens in a funny language, you could edit your shortcut to ensure the language is the correct one.

  For example, if your shortcut is...

  https://www.wgt.com/home.aspx

  ...just add

  ?hl=en

  ...to the end for the English language version. So your shortcut becomes...

  https://www.wgt.com/home.aspx?hl=en

  ...substitute the en for es if you want Spanish, fr if you want French or de if you want German.

• garyk49 2,330 Posts

  Tue, Jun 8 2021 1:39 PM

  ScottHope:

  I suppose if it happens with annoying regularity, you could add the language query string to your shortcut url.

  "What?!?!?"

  Lol. If when you click on your shortcut to open up WGT, it opens in a funny language, you could edit your shortcut to ensure the language is the correct one.

  For example, if your shortcut is...

  https://www.wgt.com/home.aspx

  ...just add

  ?hl=en

  ...to the end for the English language version. So your shortcut becomes...

  https://www.wgt.com/home.aspx?hl=en

  ...substitute the en for es if you want Spanish, fr if you want French or de if you want German.

  Thanks, Scott.  I will have to remember that.  Just now was the first time.  But as you said earlier in a different thread, strange things can happen on wgt.com.  This is not the first time I have seen strange, just the first time for this,  All was fine earlier today.  But been offline for awhile, when coming back got that.

  And what is even stranger, only some things where in German.  Only on the left side, but not all.

   

• ScottHope 10,427 Posts

  Tue, Jun 8 2021 2:04 PM

  Yup, there must be a reason why WGT only wanted some of the page changed, but I don't know what that is.

  I know that Chrome is slated by some, but having a translate option in the right click menu is a great bonus. Even if a page has several different languages on it, you can translate them all to your chosen language with just two clicks, not even a need to select any text.

• ScottHope 10,427 Posts

  Tue, Jun 15 2021 1:48 AM

  Must be an age thing.  : )