Set to English but the website now comes up in Chinese. Anyone else seen this?
No such problem for me. Maybe try flushing your cache and try again?Set to English but the website now comes up in Chinese. Anyone else seen this?
Is this giving a hint that Amtrak is using an incompetent Chinese contractor?Just got it too.
I've seen this before. "zh.amtrak"
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That was with Edge, Chrome came up just fine.
Same experience I had. Did lots of "cleaning" (history, cookies, etc) to get it to work correctly. Just checked this AM and it seems ok on Chrome.I'm having the same issue all of a sudden. Using Chrome, the main Amtrak site is in English, but when I click the signin link, it takes me to the page in Chinese. This concerns me, especially since the Amtrak site started they are for the United States and Canada only; why would there even be a version in Chinese. I do not use a VPN. Has anyone figured out what's going on? I'm going to contact Amtrak, too.
I cleared my cookies and cache from chrome, and it's working fine now. Still concerning.... I've never seen that happen before.I'm having the same issue all of a sudden. Using Chrome, the main Amtrak site is in English, but when I click the signin link, it takes me to the page in Chinese. This concerns me, especially since the Amtrak site stated they are for the United States and Canada only; why would there even be a version in Chinese. I do not use a VPN. Has anyone figured out what's going on? I'm going to contact Amtrak, too.
(Boding mine.)I'm having the same issue all of a sudden. Using Chrome, the main Amtrak site is in English, but when I click the signin link, it takes me to the page in Chinese. This concerns me, especially since the Amtrak site states they are for the United States and Canada only; why would there even be a version in Chinese.
Android phone. Do not use a VPN.
Has anyone figured out what's going on? I'm going to contact Amtrak, too.
But English is by far the most widely-spoken second language in the world, vaulting it into first place if the measure is total speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers. (By contrast, relatively few people speak or read Mandarin Chinese as a second language, though it seems to be picking up popularity in schools.) Whom do we "thank?" The British Empire? Hollywood? Globalization? Yes.According to Babel the six most spoken languages in the world in decreasing order are:
I suspect the AGR site has a bug that causes it to not reconfigure to the language specified by the user from what I presume may be the default Chinese for it being the most used language in the world. Of course that in itself is a lazy (to put it mildly) way of doing things since Amtrak is not a worldwide anything. Its default should be English as that is the most used language in the US.
- Chinese
- Spanish
- English
- Arabic
- Hindi
- Bengali
Often Hindi and Bengali are punted on in the Anglosphere (though it is changing) because of the relatively widespread English literacy among those that travel to the Anglosphere from the subcontinent.
Oddly enough I am pretty much a native speaker of 3, 5 and 6 since I have spoken all three since early childhood, but depending on who is counting for what purpose I have been counted as exclusive native speaker of any one of the three, So there is that too. My iPhone for example is configured with all three keyboards - English/US, Bengali and Hindi/Devnagari. Hindi in its Urdu form uses the Persian script which I can neither read nor write/type, but I can understand and speak the Urdu form of Hindi, basically more Persian root words rather than Sanskrit root words. Grammar and sentence construct is pretty much the same.
Interesting. I would have thought French would have made the list given that it is spoken in several countries in Africa as well as Canada and even places in the northern US, as well as Europe. Of course for Amtrak bring primarily aimed at people in North America it makes sense to have French as an option.According to Babel the six most spoken languages in the world in decreasing order are:
- Chinese
- Spanish
- English
- Arabic
- Hindi
- Bengali
French as second language is probably pretty high and definitely within the top 6. And indeed for the USA in particular and North America in general it would be English, Spanish and French if one had to choose three languages.Interesting. I would have thought French would have made the list given that it is spoken in several countries in Africa as well as Canada and even places in the northern US, as well as Europe. Of course for Amtrak bring primarily aimed at people in North America it makes sense to have French as an option.
I am not having a problem with it myself. It comes up on the English language site, https://www.amtrak.com/guestrewards.html. I mostly use Chrome on a Windows 10 PC and on an Android phone.AGR still comes up in Chinese no matter what I do. I can choose English and still get Chinese. What the heck in happening? Amtrak is an American service. While people of all ethnicities use it, the main language here is still English.
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