Best way to move from French OS 9 to English?

[desertrout]

I have a G3 iMac with French OS 9.0.4 that I'd like to replace with English - what would be the best way to do that? I don't think I can merely perform an update to 9.1 in English... can I???

 

[Scott Baret]

If you boot with an English OS 9 CD, you can install over the French version.

 

[desertrout]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot - will that process retain applications and files?

 

[uyjulian]

You may have issues with encoding if you use French language applications on English language system.

 

[desertrout]

I decided to simply bail on any specifically French apps, so that's not going to be an issue - I'm not going to use them, and from what I can tell they're all available on orchard etc. so their legacy is being maintained. Any other apps seem to work just fine after I installed 9.2.2 International over top, no problems. Thanks everyone.