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

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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


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.


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").


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