Blogger Multi-language Issue

Today I just found an issue with Blogger's attempts to localise the language for its blogger users.

I live in Hong Kong, where they speak Cantonese(just in case you didn't know). Now here's the problem, I can't read or speak Chinese, and because of my geographic location it defaults many of the pages into Chinese.

For most sites this isn't an issue, you just click the English link, and the English version of the site pops up (eg. Google.com.hk) but here there is no choice. It all seems a bit pointless to me. Quite frankly most the cantonese people here who are likely to use blogger can read, write and speak fine English. In fact the computer I'm using isn't even a chinese version of windows, its ALL English.

On the other hand I completely understand why they are localising the languages, I mean who would want to read something in your non-preferred language when you could do it in your preffered language. But they should DEFINITELY have a choice. I know many of my friends prefer to speak English (yes I am talking about the chinese ones) even though they grew up speaking Cantonese (a dialect of Chinese). Also, there is such a large English-speaking only population here, that it only seems to make sense to have the option.

Ah...now I've got that off my head I can concentrate on trying to find my way around blogger by hovering over the links, and seeing where they point to in the status bar!!!