Originally Posted by
zowwie
I got my Hilton Amex with the chip on Friday. Had occasion to visit that one local Wal-Mart where EMV is enabled in the self checkout lanes today and noticed that the Amex card inserts a prompt for what language I wanted to use for the transaction. English, Spanish, French and one other language were on the list... I don't remember what the 4th one was.
I've never had that happen with my UK Amex or any other UK issued EMV card for that matter. Most terminals around the world just recognise where the card is from and show the prompts in English. I could understand Spanish in the US though as there are obviously Spanish speakers, but I do not understand why you'd have French. I can only imagine that Amex didn't put the language code on the chip.