Text showing up in Russian when I have English chosen as language

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  mrsflipphead · Member · Sep 3, 2007 at 1:44 pm

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  The text on my dashboard bar and on the WP homepage (some of it) is coming up Russian, when I haven’t made any changes. All I did was close my brower last night. Now I logged on this morning and much of WP text is in Cyrillic. The text in my posts is in English and my options are set to English. But I can’t read half of the wordpress text, even in my dashboard. Help!

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  pemadesign · Member · Sep 3, 2007 at 1:49 pm

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  Just started getting exactly the same problem here. It was fine 3 hours ago but the dashboard bar has since changed to Russian. Both my posts language and profile language settings are for English.

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  mark · Member · Sep 3, 2007 at 1:55 pm

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  Sorry for the brief language change. All is fixed now.

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  trawknad · Member · Sep 3, 2007 at 1:58 pm

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  same to me. I try English, or German as interface, and IE and FireFox

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  mrsflipphead · Member · Sep 3, 2007 at 2:25 pm

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  Looks like mark says it’s all cleared up now. It is on mine. Thanks Mark!

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  eftorsello · Member · Sep 3, 2007 at 3:07 pm

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  Same to me. My blog is italian but my Dashboard it’s russian, I don’t really know why

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  qw88nb88 · Member · Sep 4, 2007 at 1:21 am

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  My dashboard is still in Rusian … funny part was, I mentioned “Animal Farm” in a recent post (the analogy about the Bolshevik revolution)

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  options · Member · Sep 4, 2007 at 1:39 am

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  The Russians are coming.

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  ingenieous · Member · Sep 4, 2007 at 10:04 am

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  A few things on my blog are still in Russian, as I just registered while WP was experiencing this problem (by making guesses through the process). Trouble is, the default tag is in Russian now and I have no idea what it was supposed to be in the first place.. and a few other things too. A little help, anyone?

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  options · Member · Sep 4, 2007 at 11:45 am

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  http://nikolay.wordpress.com/about/ is definitely supposed to have some neat ideas in the first place.

  else learn Bulgarian or (better yet) Albanian! and no, we can’t help with the latter thing in this forums.

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  ingenieous · Member · Sep 4, 2007 at 3:31 pm

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  problem has been solved. Thanks!

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  wank · Member · Sep 4, 2007 at 9:35 pm

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  sorry everyone, this is probably my fault for passing this guy’s problem on to staff. seems nikolay got a little overenthusiastic when it came to finally implementing the russian translation. heh.

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  options · Member · Sep 5, 2007 at 8:21 pm

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  I don’t think you have to be sorry, it’s not your fault as it appeared.

  even though if Nikolay got really a little overenthusiastic, then it was about implementing the bulgarian translation, not the russian one requested by the poster you referred (localizable resource strings on his russian blog are still in English).

  searching in Goog for a default category string, mentioned by the above blogger in this thread, turned up it was some bulgarian word.

  since Bulgarian language uses a Cyrillic alphabet (which is used besides Russian by quite a few another languages), apparently people thought it was Russian. seems it was not.