Hello Paul, At the beginning of an installation, there is a Language Chooser screen. Did you select English at this point? Also, did you erase the HD? If not, then the language settings appear to be conserved.
I've regularly done installations in both French and English and never had a problem, but I always erase the Hard drive first. Cheers, Anne On 10 Nov 2012, at 12:18, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear listers, > > I'm reinstalling someone else's mac at his request. His keyboard layout is > Belgium, i.e. not English, that's the point, and the braille table is > European, not US. This was the case right before the reinstall of mountain > lion, but strangely, it is still the case even after the reinstall. > > . Why does the mac remember the keyboard layout, and not default back to US, > and why does it stick to the European braille table, even though no previous > settings should be still around after the reinstall? > I was hoping that, with a clean mac, it would start by default as US English, > with screen language being US, but that is Belgian by default. Also, I would > expect the US braille table by default but that is still European, and even > the keyboard layout is still Belgium and not US, after a clean install. What > is happening? Am I wrong in assuming that the default for any reinstalled mac > is US English? The oddest thing happening is that software update is now in > French, of which I don't understand much. In fact, so little that I cannot > make sense of the software update page. I looked in language and text, but > nothing was set to French, I set everything back from Belgian to English US, > rebooted, but no luck. It sticks at Belgium keyboard, screen text and braille > table. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > Paul. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
