# Why does the 404 page on Meta have Chinese text?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [28 בינואר, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974 "2020-01-28T18:50:33Z")
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [28 בינואר, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974/1 "2020-01-28T18:50:33Z")
I’m using Firefox on Linux. Everything other than the headers is in English.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [28 בינואר, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974/2 "2020-01-28T19:02:56Z")
Can’t reproduce from my side. Can you say more about your system’s location and/or language settings? Any reason why something might be detecting Chinese language?
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [28 בינואר, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974/3 "2020-01-28T19:04:23Z")
It seems to be Linux-specific. My Windows VM doesn’t do it.
> **headers on Linux**
>
> According to [another website](https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending), I’m sending these HTTP headers:
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> | ACCEPT | text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,_/_;q=0.8 |
> | --- | --- |
> | ACCEPT-ENCODING | gzip, deflate, br |
> | ACCEPT-LANGUAGE | en-US,en;q=0.5 |
> | HOST | [www.whatismybrowser.com](http://www.whatismybrowser.com) |
> | REFERER | [https://duckduckgo.com/](https://duckduckgo.com/) |
> | TE | trailers |
> | UPGRADE-INSECURE-REQUESTS | 1 |
> | USER-AGENT | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86\_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0 |
>
> And according to the JavaScript console, this is the language:
>
> ```
> "en-US"
>
> ```
> **headers on Windows**
>
> According to [another website](https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending), I’m sending these HTTP headers:
>
> | ACCEPT | text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,_/_;q=0.8 |
> | --- | --- |
> | ACCEPT-ENCODING | gzip, deflate, br |
> | ACCEPT-LANGUAGE | en-US,en;q=0.5 |
> | HOST | [www.whatismybrowser.com](http://www.whatismybrowser.com) |
> | TE | trailers |
> | UPGRADE-INSECURE-REQUESTS | 1 |
> | USER-AGENT | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0 |
>
> And according to the JavaScript console, this is the language:
>
> ```
> "en-US"
>
> ```
The weird part is that it’s inconsistent. The primary header is in English, it’s just those subheaders that are localized.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [28 בינואר, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974/4 "2020-01-28T19:07:23Z")
Thanks for reporting this. It is because the `set locale from accept language header` setting has been enabled on Meta. That setting causes issues with the anonymous cache and should not be enabled on public sites that are using a CDN. For details about the issue, see [Swedish? meta just showed me the UI in Swedish](https://meta.discourse.org/t/swedish-meta-just-showed-me-the-ui-in-swedish/41137).
I’ll disable that setting on Meta now.
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [28 בינואר, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974/5 "2020-01-28T19:14:49Z")
Okay, so it has nothing to do with my Linux or Windows setup. That’s a relief…
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [28 בינואר, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-the-404-page-on-meta-have-chinese-text/139974/6 "2020-01-28T19:37:20Z")