Register in English

I accept that I am a noob with Hikashop, so I am sorry if there is an obvious solution. I have looked but I cannot find one. My site does not require a login until a user tries to buy something. When they try to buy something Hikashop asks them to register, fine. If they choose a country like Thailand (where I am providing a service to tourists) the choice of province changes to Thai language... something that the average tourist cannot read... big problem. They cannot register because they cannot read the Thai language. Is it possible to get the province options in English? It does look stupid on an English language site to have foreign language reading requirements. I travel a lot and work in many countries and this is a constant problem with many web sites. I would understand if the language was obtained from the browsers but I do not want IP specific languages on any site as it frequently makes the site unusable.

Thank you for your prompt answer. Your answer makes me feel that you do not travel much because this is not the only country with a large expat community or tourist industry and many countries have populations that speak different languages within the same country. In my travels I meet a lot of people that get seriously pissed off about this and that is why I would not have it on one of my sites.

With your Azerbaijan choice (I am impressed that the regions are in Azerbaijani) almost half the population are still Russian speaking and cannot read or write Azerbaijani. Kazahstan is the same (in Kazakhstan just over half Russian speaking) but you have Almaty City in English??? and the rest in Kazakh. I could go on, I have lived in these countries. I do understand what you say and I hope you understand what I am saying. It is better if the language is taken from the browser setting but that would require several option for several countries. I understand that...

I assume that you are not able to offer a simple solution and I cannot read the provinces on your list, so I cannot do anything with them. I will use one of the other options which is a shame as other than this, I like your product. With other options they allow the user to type their own province.

Thank you for providing a simple solution for me, I do appreciate that.

With regard to browsers, the following code will tell you what language the user prefers to use according to their browser preferences -

#########################################################
# Copyright © 2008 Darrin Yeager #
# www.dyeager.org/ #
# Licensed under BSD license. #
# www.dyeager.org/downloads/license-bsd.php #
#########################################################

function getDefaultLanguage() {
if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]))
return parseDefaultLanguage($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]);
else
return parseDefaultLanguage(NULL);
}

function parseDefaultLanguage($http_accept, $deflang = "en") {
if(isset($http_accept) && strlen($http_accept) > 1) {
# Split possible languages into array
$x = explode(",",$http_accept);
foreach ($x as $val) {
#check for q-value and create associative array. No q-value means 1 by rule
if(preg_match("/(.*);q=([0-1]{0,1}\.\d{0,4})/i",$val,$matches))
$lang[$matches[1]] = (float)$matches[2];
else
$lang[$val] = 1.0;
}

#return default language (highest q-value)
$qval = 0.0;
foreach ($lang as $key => $value) {
if ($value > $qval) {
$qval = (float)$value;
$deflang = $key;
}
}
}
return strtolower($deflang);
}