Unexpected language on mobile device

If the Mobile Search client features appear in an unexpected language, you may need to do one or both of the following:

Check the language request that the mobile device sends to Mobile Search, and if necessary change the language request.

The language request is a string of one or more language codes that are specified on the mobile device.

Mobile Search examines only the first language code in the language request. Mobile Search tries to match the exact language code to one of the languages it supports. If it does not find an exact match, it tries variations of the language code. For example, if the code is en-us, Mobile Search removes -us and matches the request to English (en).
Change the Mobile Search default language.

If Mobile Search does not recognize the language request, it uses the default language that is specified in Web.Config on the Mobile Search server. You may need to set the default language to one that is suitable for your mobile device users.

To check the language request from a mobile device

On the mobile device, open the Web browser.
Go to the following URL:

https://server/mobilesearch/ClientInfo.aspx

where server is the Mobile Search server.
On the read-only page that is displayed, find the entry named HTTP Accept Language. This entry shows the language request string.

To change the default language on the Mobile Search server

Change the Language setting in the Mobile Search configuration file Web.Config.

See Configuring Mobile Search language support.