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.
@larsmb same is true for browsers wanting to translate every page not in the first selected language 😡
@larsmb Most people on this planet are multilingual to some degree. It's m folk with English as their first language who seem to form the largest exception.
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...
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@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.
@jens @larsmb German is my mother tongue. I speak English reasonably well. And I still WANT to see documentation that was WRITTEN in English in that language because I understand English better than I would understand an automated translation.
Actually I understand English better than some "professional" translations as well.
If it's English, show me English. If it's German, show me English. Never translate those two languages for me.
Sadly http doesn't have a notion of "translated" and "native".
@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)
