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I just installed VLC on my Chin Win98se system, but I do not read Chinese (my other family members do). Your streaming install routine detected the system language settings and chose Chinese language menus. How can I tell it to install in English, or else, download a pure English install module?

Preferences, interface, cahnge language there.

That's great! But, did you miss where I said, I cannot read Chinese? Which of the Chinese menu items says, for instance, "Preferences" or "interface"?

Nevermind. I found a workaround. I just copied the vlc.mo file from the locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES to the locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES folder. THEN I could locate Settings/Preferences/interface/language (scroll menu)!

As a note to the developers: it might be useful to ASK the user what language to install in, instead of auto-detecting the system settings (which could be set to the default displayed choice). Of course, if the question is in the same language as the default settings, and the installer cannot read that language, well....

you can change your non-unicode program locale to english under control panel / regions on last tab.
Or you simply go to preferences by pressing ctrl+p or you can see the icon as tools and hammer under tools tab, doesn't seem too hard even for 10 years old person, what a shame that you can not read Chinese... anyway that would be another topic

Or from commandline.
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-0.9 ... anguage.3F

Thats a quite interactive solutions