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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
Step 1: When I input a scientific name it translates into Chinese, this is a problem as I do not read Chinese
Step 2: How to stop this from happening?
Step 3:
Hi @pahk, welcome to the forum.
Could you please provide the link to the page for that insect (or the scientific name), a curator will then be able to look into the issue in more detail.
It happens for all pages. Maybe it is the default as I live in Hong Kong. No matter what I have input, the taxa box always shows Chinese only.
Here is an example
I typed Coleoptera
The OBSERVATIONS
Is the default language in your account settings chosen as English (or whatever other non-Chinese language you want)?
Default language is English. But I changed the display name from “Common” to “Scientific”.
That works, now it shows the Latin name.
Great, thank you very much
i think what matters is the preferred place setup in account settings:
setting the preferred place to Hong Kong gives you Chinese taxon names in many cases:
for now, if you don’t want to see Chinese taxon names, i would just remove the preferred place.
in the long term, i think this feature request comes into play: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/select-language-for-common-names/5430.
The issue is caused by users who have been adding traditional chinese names and also added Hong Kong, Macoa and Taiwan as places. This then overrules the user selected language.
That is OK as most users in Hong Kong are Chinese speakers. Changed the display name from “Common” to “Scientific”, will work for most.
Anyway problem solved. Thanks agaim
