How to change second birthday entry in contacts to be english

Question

I recently noticed that when I attempt to "add" a second birthday entry into my contacts the date options come up in Chinese.  If I attempt to change it by clicking on chinese, the only options available are chinese, hebrew and islamic.  This does not occur on the first entry of a birthday.  The first "add birthday" works as desired given you the month,day, year as you would expect when language is set to English.  This occurs regardless of adding a new contact or modifying a current contact.  I verified that in "general, settings, mail, contacts, calendars, alternate calendars was indeed "off".  I did try toggling off to chinese to off again in the alternate calendars option.  I do not believe this was a problem before version 8 as I do not believe you could put in a second birthday.  Based on other contacts, I used "other" for the date.
Any information related to this would be helpful.
This occurs on:
Iphone 5s
version 8.1.2 (12b440)
model me309ll/a
Thanks,

Answer 1

If you want to clear the value of the second column in the user interface through a ValueChangeListener, do the following:
1) Use similar code in your page:
<af:table ...>
  <af:column id="col1" ... >
    <af:inputText id="myFirstAttr" autoSubmit="true"
                  valueChangeListener="#{MyBean.myFirstAttrValueChanged}"
                  ... >
      <f:validator ... />
    </af:inputText>
  </af:column>
  <af:column id="col2" ... >
    <af:inputText id="mySecondAttr" partialTriggers="myFirstAttr"
                  binding="#{MyBean.mySecondAttr}"
                  ... >
      <f:validator ... />
    </af:inputText>
  </af:column>
</af:table>2) Use an existing managed bean or create a new one and bind it to the name "MyBean". The code should be similar to:
public class MyBean
  private RichInputText mySecondAttr;
  public SurveyBean()
  public void mySecondAttrValueChanged(ValueChangeEvent valueChangeEvent) {
    // Clear the value of the 2nd column depending on the new value entered in the 1st column
    // (Use valueChangeEvent.getNewValue() to get the new value of the 1st column)
    if (<some_condition>) {
      mySecondAttr.setValue(null);
  public void setMySecondAttr(RichInputText mySecondAttr) {
    this.mySecondAttr = mySecondAttr;
  public RichInputText getMySecondAttr() {
    return mySecondAttr;
}