Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Jun 17, 2025

Dear #GitHub, when I click on a link to an English language documentation page, I don't want to be automatically redirected to a machine generated German translation.

Yes, I have both enabled in my browser. Multi-lingual people are a thing. If I want a translation, I'll explicitly ask for it.

Every site whose product owner/manager insists on automatic translation should immediately fire them.

Show threadWouter Verhelst
@larsmb
At least they give you a language which you speak. I've been served a French version of a site because 'Belgium', when I speak that less well than English...
Jun 17, 2025 at 4:26pmWeb
Show threadMarc HaberJun 17, 2025

@wouter @larsmb Microsoft used to seve an automatic translation of the Knowledge Base two decades ago. I remember debugging for two days with Windows people why Exchange didn't honor a particular registry setting before letting them show me exactly what they did. And I stumbled upon a "J" being set into a registry key.

Yes, on my English browser the same document said "Y" and that was also what worked.

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@Zugschlus @wouter @larsmb oh fuck that registry. i remeber dark that the regedit is translated but acessing with power shell, the english path (or whatever this is called) is/was needed (or vice versa)
Show threadltningJun 20, 2025
@Zugschlus @wouter @larsmb MS Access databases could only be opened in the same language version of Access it was created with because *internal* columns and data type names were also translated.