Links in forum posts and language

[Ben J.]

Often, I want to post a link to support.apple.com in a post. I go to support.apple.com, which shows up in my native language, norwegian, copy the adress and paste it.

I like how macrumorforums display a small 'preview' of the page when just pasting a link, but I suspect these previews are showing up in norwegian which might not be that helpful to everyone. Any ideas on how to proceed with this?

Example:

Gjenopprett objekter som er sikkerhetskopiert med Time Machine på Macen

Bruk en Time Machine-sikkerhetskopi til å gjenfinne tapte objekter eller gjenopprette eldre versjoner av filer.

support.apple.com

 

[Slartibart]

you could replace the no-no part in your link
https:/ /support.apple.com/no-no/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac
with en-en and it will link to the english version. similar de-de will link to the german one, etc..

 

[Ben J.]

you could replace the no-no part in your link https://support.apple.com/no-no/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac with en-en and it will link to the english version. similar de-de will link to the german one, etc..

Thanks. I did try to simply remove the /no-no part, but it seemed to not make any difference.

So - like this:

Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac

On your Mac, use a Time Machine backup to retrieve lost items or recover older versions of files.

support.apple.com

 

[NoBoMac]

What @Slartibart said.

en-us is US English for Apple.

Link I posted earlier in the day on the site.

If Find My is offline or not working - Apple Support

Get help when you don't see your device listed, or you see an unexpected device or an alert that says your device is offline.

support.apple.com

ADD: seem to recall that browsers will remember your previous Apple language preferences, so can get into a cycle of trying to view previous page in different language with Apple pages.

ADD2: UK English is en-gb

If Find My is offline or isn't working – Apple Support (UK)

Get help when your device isn't listed in Find My, or you see an unexpected device or an alert that says your device is offline.

support.apple.com

OP link:

Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac

On your Mac, use a Time Machine backup to retrieve lost items or recover older versions of files.

support.apple.com

Which brought up UK version for me since I went to UK site to get a link to Find My UK for language value.

 

[Ben J.]

Thanks. Easy fix.

 

[Nermal]

If you include no language code at all (so https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac in this example) then it'll go to whatever the reader's configured language is. I see the linked article in English, but I suspect it'll appear in Norwegian for you.

 

[Ben J.]

Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac

On your Mac, use a Time Machine backup to retrieve lost items or recover older versions of files.

support.apple.com

If you include no language code at all (so https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac in this example) then it'll go to whatever the reader's configured language is. I see the linked article in English, but I suspect it'll appear in Norwegian for you.

That's what I always thought and hoped would happen!
So I tried to remove the no-no/ part of the adress but firefox still led me to the norwegian page.

I'll try again. Adress of the norwegian page, with /no-no removed:

Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac

On your Mac, use a Time Machine backup to retrieve lost items or recover older versions of files.

support.apple.com

 

[Ben J.]

Well, Now it worked!
So, simply removing the language part of the adress will result in the apple page showing in your preferred language.