Are BIOSes localized?

[da na]

Yesterday I bought a German laptop on eBay, but the photos showed the BIOS in English. I am aware many BIOSes have an option to chnage language; however, I would presume many terms (eg. Intel SpeedStep) would not translate well into other languages. That raised the question, how much are BIOSes localized for countries where English is not the first language? If I were to buy a laptop in, say, Spain, would the BIOS still be set to English by default?

[Lurking]

Maybe it exists, but most will be English only. There are memory limiations and we don't need to slow down BIOS even more. You also need all characters. And if you accidentally get. Chinese BIOS, how do you ever get back to English with all Chinese characters and terms?

 

People who adjust BIOS would know the terms. And the terms are not useful to just an English speaker. Even if you speak English, you still need to know what it means. 

 

It also would be bad to support more languages. All support sites will use the English term. So a German speaker can google and use a US tutorial. If that BIOS would be in German, the majority of tutorials and forum threads would not work well and they would be limited to German tutorials. And even most of the German tutorials would use the English terms anyway 

 

I think even OS should be in English. They do people a huge disfavor translating everything. The layman has to learn anyway, may as well kearn the English term. Same effort, but more useful. Especially with Internet where English gives you much more access to websites.

[Kilrah]

I don't think I've run across a non-English BIOS yet... and I'm not in an English-speaking country.

 

Speedstep being a brand/feature name it wouldn't be translated anyway, but yeah some things might become confusing.

[Noah0302]

17 minutes ago, da na said:

Yesterday I bought a German laptop on eBay, but the photos showed the BIOS in English. I am aware many BIOSes have an option to chnage language; however, I would presume many terms (eg. Intel SpeedStep) would not translate well into other languages. That raised the question, how much are BIOSes localized for countries where English is not the first language? If I were to buy a laptop in, say, Spain, would the BIOS still be set to English by default?

Hey, I might be qualified to answer since I live in Germany.

 

All Motherboards I bought came stock with english as the BIOS language, even the Notebooks I bought had english BIOSes.

I just checked on my Zephyrus G14 and I did not even see an option to change the BIOS language to german (I looked in advanced mode), but it was there on my ASUS Z370 Hero X Mainboard.

 

But I can not say for sure, that all Notebooks and Mainboards are like that, since I only owned a couple of them over time!

[TetraSky]

The only non-english BIOSes I've seen, were in pre-builts from the likes of DELL and HP. They have multi language bios.
Every other boards I've seen, were in English.