{"id":6975,"date":"2008-11-10T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/2008\/11\/10\/linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:44:00","slug":"linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking to a foreign language web page with Microsoft Translator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have you ever wanted to link to a web page that is in a different language than your own site?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(Update 01-2015)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Translator Widget: For your own pages (http and https)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Microsoft Translator webpage widget allows you to deliver the page in multiple languages, without taking your users away from the site. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9656123\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to get the code snippet for your widget. Pages with the widget on them can be linked to in a specific language&nbsp;by adding<span style=\"color: #800000;background-color: #ffffff\"> ?__mstto=&lt;lg&gt;<\/span> to the URL where &lt;lg&gt; is the language code (like es for Spanish) you want the page to be shown in.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, this article in English has the following link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/translation\/archive\/2008\/11\/10\/linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/translation\/archive\/2008\/11\/10\/linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Spanish: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/translation\/archive\/2008\/11\/10\/linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator.aspx?__mstto=es\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/translation\/archive\/2008\/11\/10\/linking-to-a-foreign-language-web-page-with-microsoft-translator.aspx?__mstto=es<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Billingual Viewer:&nbsp;On any web page (http protocol&nbsp;only,&nbsp;no https)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You can use Microsoft Translator bilingual viewer to link to the <em>translated <\/em>web page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Showing an English&nbsp;site to a Simplified Chinese&nbsp;language user: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/bv.aspx?from=en&amp;to=zh-chs&amp;lo=TB&amp;a=www.technet.com\">www.microsofttranslator.com\/bv.aspx?from=en&amp;to=zh-chs&amp;lo=TB&amp;a=www.technet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Showing a Japanese site&nbsp;to an English user:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/BV.aspx?from=ja&amp;to=en&amp;lo=TP&amp;a=http:\/\/www.metro.tokyo.jp\/\">www.microsofttranslator.com\/BV.aspx?from=ja&amp;to=en&amp;lo=TP&amp;a=www.metro.tokyo.jp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can directly embed all the options in the link. Here is how that works:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Syntax (see examples above):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/bv.aspx\">http:\/\/www.microsofttranslator.com\/bv.aspx<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; from=&lt;source language&gt;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; to=&lt;target language&gt;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lo=&lt;layout&gt;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; a=&lt;target address&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Valid language codes:<\/p>\n<p>en, de, fr, it, es, pt, zh-chs, zh-cht, ja, ko, ar, ru, nl, cs, da, he, el, pl, sv, th<\/p>\n<p>Valid layout codes:<\/p>\n<p>SS (side-by-side), TB (top-bottom), SP (original with hover translation), TP (translation with hover original)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted to link to a web page that is in a different language than your own site? (Update 01-2015) Translator Widget: For your own pages (http and https) The Microsoft Translator webpage widget allows you to deliver the page in multiple languages, without taking your users away from the site. 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