Format Cells occasionally showing Chinese (Taiwan) locale

cisco55

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Occasionally in Excel 2010 when I open Format Cells, I am presented with an odd result.
Does anyone have a good explanation? Is my Lenovo keyboard doing this?

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I had polish zip codes added the other day after running some code across cells, i don't know the cause but if you can identify when it occurs in code you can at least reapply correct formatting over the top
 
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Thanks, I will be on the lookout and check manually while stepping through some VBA.

I've run a scheduled task .vbs to check the system locale, though I've never caught it with programmatic means.

Code:
locale = getlocale()
if locale <> 1033 then
msgbox "Locale changed to " & getlocale()
end if


I am reading these cells via VBA to populate a listbox on a userform.
It has occurred on this system several times now, using different workbooks and VBA.
 
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I am not sure if I have understood your question correctly... but why don't you select the "Locale" you need?
 
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