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From: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: International automatic teller machines (ATM's)
Message-ID: <756@othervax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 10:49:10 EST
Article-I.D.: othervax.756
Posted: Wed Feb  5 10:49:10 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 05:25:58 EST
References: <2178@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
Organization: Philips Information Systems - St. Laurent  P.Q., Canada
Lines: 23
Keywords: bi-lingual banking
Summary: 

In article <2178@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	Here in New York, the first question the Citibank ATM's ask you is
>"What language should we speak?"  In my neighborhood, the alternatives are
>English and Espanol.  I would imagine other branches might have other
>choices.
>

Here in Montreal, the Bank of Commerce ATM's automatically select your
preferred language (English or French) when the credit card is inserted.
I was quite impressed when I discovered this, not having given the English
only prompts much thought in this illegal-in-English-only province, until
I happened to see someone in front of me getting their prompts in French.

Other banks ATM's I have noticed have bi-lingual prompts (no, not
Franglais, but a multi-line led display with simultaneous French and
English).

The banks, as do other institutions and businesses, have your preferred
language on file, because unless you specifically request otherwise, they
must communicate with you in French.

Ray Dunn.  ..philabs!micomvax!othervax!ray