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marc wellman
marc wellman

Reputation: 5886

Automatic text translation at MSDN pages - How to turn off?

Is there a way to turn off the automatic text translation at the MSDN library pages ?

I do prefer English text but due to having a German IP address Microsoft activates the automatic translation on every new page load which gives me a yellow box with a German translation of the text I am currently hovering over with the mouse.

This happens regardless what language is initially set in the right upper corner and regardless of whether I am logged in or not.

I can't tell how annoying this is !!

Any ideas, anyone ?

Upvotes: 143

Views: 15534

Answers (12)

Pierre Roudaut
Pierre Roudaut

Reputation: 1073

I got tired of replacing manually the url of the MSDN docs to target en-us in the url, so I came up with this little user script for the very handy Tampermonkey extension (available on Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Firefox)

// ==UserScript==
// @name         MSDN docs [en-us] redirect
// @version      0.1
// @description  Redirects to the en-us version of the current MSDN doc page
// @grant        none
// @match        https://learn.microsoft.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
    let pathname = window.location.pathname.split('/');
    if (pathname[1].toLowerCase() !== 'en-us') {
        pathname[1] = 'en-us';
        pathname = pathname.join('/');
        window.location.href = window.location.origin + pathname + window.location.search;
    }
})();

Once you have the extension installed,

  1. Click on its icon
  2. Click on Create a new script...
  3. Paste the previous code
  4. Save it (Ctrl + S or File > Save).
  5. Test the redirection: https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/classes

The @match property will ensure that this script is only run against MSDN doc pages.

Upvotes: 8

Janspeed
Janspeed

Reputation: 2814

Usually there is a language link at the bottom of the page where you can change language (even though a permanent site specific setting would be much nicer).

Upvotes: 1

slawekwin
slawekwin

Reputation: 6310

I know it's an old question, by maybe this insight will be useful to someone.

I almost always open msdn through a search in google. It most of the time offered me site translated to my local language (through a part of the address with locale), sometimes accompanied by original (English) version next to it. If I click on the original language link, it does not translate anything, so it is not automatic translation based on my localization.

What solved my problem was to change google search settings to prefer English, rather than my native language. Go to google search settings, set Which language should Google products use? to English, then in Currently showing search results in: click Edit and check other languages you are likely to search in.

It will also change the UI language for google. I know it might be a high price to pay, but I believe it is worth it. If you search for a query typed in given language, results will most likely result in this language pages anyway.

Upvotes: 2

LegoCoder
LegoCoder

Reputation: 19

I'm using NoScript addon with Firefox (actually Waterfox), just forbib "m-msft.com", the translator will be turned off. I think you can use other plugins in other browser to forbid the domain too. NoScript is a must have addon for any serious web user, and UserStyles, of course.

Upvotes: 0

Whazz
Whazz

Reputation: 367

Found it! I mean, it's 2016, 3 years late, and maybe they just added it recently, but when you scroll all the way down there's a small button in the left bottom corner where you can choose language you want to use (more specifically a country "you're from").

Upvotes: 22

wally
wally

Reputation: 1

In IE in Internet Options Panel you have Apperrance part in General Tab. Add preffered language as a first and from now on all pages from MSDN will be presented in choosen language

Upvotes: 0

Patrice Gahide
Patrice Gahide

Reputation: 3744

Instead of extensions, which will consume memory and are a bit overkill for that kind of thing, you can use a custom search query.

Chrome

Settings => Manage Search Engines, add this entry:

Engine: MSDN US

Keyword: ms

URL: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=%s (or whatever the proper url is at the time of your reading, just use %s wherever it needs the actual query string)

Now, in the address bar, just type ms [SPACE]. As soon as you press the space, it will prompt you with Search on MSDN US:. Just type your query now. For instance ms string will redirect you to the MSDN-US version of the search results for string. Of course you can change the title and keyword.

I'm sure the other common browsers expose that kind of functionality too. On Firefox, I used to plug custom search engines on the search bar.

This is a neat trick that I use for all kinds of searches (SO, Amazon, Wikipedia in different languages, etc.). It's very efficient.

Upvotes: 1

Alezis
Alezis

Reputation: 2759

Recently I came across the same problem. And I solved it with Chrome extension ModHeader. I configured and it works:ModHeader

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Upvotes: 6

Jens Mühlenhoff
Jens Mühlenhoff

Reputation: 14873

MSDN uses the prefered language from your web browser settings.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6543407d-f743-48fb-965b-b8af9f9a0cb1/howto-disable-automatic-translation-into-german?forum=msdnfeedback

This is due to the Accept-Language header:

http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-accept-lang-locales

So setting your browser to prefer English language websites should fix this problem. W3C has an overview how to do that on different browsers here:

http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities.en.php

Upvotes: 11

quadroid
quadroid

Reputation: 8950

There is a chrome addon aswell

Switcheroo-Redirector

Upvotes: 8

ghord
ghord

Reputation: 13825

If you are a firefox user, you can use Redirector addon. Create a new redirect and set it up like this:

Reflector configuration

It will automatically redirect all msdn requests to english non-translated versions.

Upvotes: 40

Chris wendt
Chris wendt

Reputation: 522

When you hit the "Original" radio button at the top, you see English, with German in the yellow hover box. If you visit the original English site, you don't see a translation, not even on hover. You switch to English by replacing /de-de/ in the URL with /en-us/. As in

German (translation or original with translation on hover):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.diagnostics.contracts.contractargumentvalidatorattribute(v=vs.110).aspx

English only (no translation):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.contracts.contractargumentvalidatorattribute(v=vs.110).aspx

Upvotes: 49

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