AltaVista is dedicated to offering you relevant search results without language barriers. You can customize AltaVista to perform multi-lingual searches in up
to 25 different languages; and to search the index in non-Roman alphabets such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
Indicate your preferred settings.
After clicking Set Language Settings, bookmark your newly created personalized search page.
To change your preferences in the future, return to this page.
The AltaVista index contains Web pages from all around the world written in 25 different languages. You can search the index in several of these languages at the same time.
To do so, specify the language(s) you want AltaVista to search in. If you specify different languages on an individual search page, those selections will override these.
Chinese (Traditional)
Icelandic
Chinese (Simplified)
Italian
Italiano
Czech
Japanese
Danish
Dansk
Korean
Dutch
Hollands
Latvian
English
English
Lithuanian
Estonian
Eesti
Norwegian
Norsk
Finnish
Suomalais
Polish
Polski
French
Français
Portuguese
Português
German
Deutsch
Romanian
Român
Greek
Russian
Hebrew
Spanish
Español
Hungarian
Magyar
Swedish
Svensk
Note: If you have selected any non-Roman alphabets, please continue to the next section, Encoding for Non-Roman Alphabets; before beginning a search.
For help on entering accented letters in the query box, click here.
Note: For queries in Western European languages (English, French, German, Italian or Swedish, for example), skip the "Encoding for Non-Roman Alphabets" section, proceed to the bottom
of the page, and click the "Set Language Settings" button.
To enter queries in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Hebrew, Greek or a Central European language (Polish or Czech), you must be sure that your AltaVista settings match
your browser settings.
Be sure that your browser is configured to use the language of your choice.
For help configuring Internet Explorer, go to Help > Contents > and Index > Customizing Your Browser > Correct display Web pages encoded in any language.
Choose the encoding below that matches your browser's setting in order for AltaVista to interpret your query correctly.
Western European Languages:
ISO-8859-1 or
Windows-1252
Central European Languages:
ISO-8859-2 or
Windows-1250
Cyrillic:
Windows-1251 or
KOI8-R or
ISO-8859-5
Greek:
ISO-8859-7 or
Windows-1253
Hebrew:
ISO-8859-8 or
Windows-1255
Baltic Languages:
ISO-8859-4 or
Windows-1257
Note for the following Asian languages: If the characters in Column A match those in Column B, this is the setting you should select.
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