Using SharePoint 2010, is there a way to append the URL for a page so that it will display in a specific language despite what the user has their languages preferences set to?
For example, I want to link from a French HTML page to the French version of a SharePoint page. Right now, if the user's settings are for English, the SharePoint page will come up in English. Is there a way to force it to show the french page? Some bit that is added to the URL?
I've never heard of an OOTB query string parameter to do this.
The blog post Change current UI locale using query string parameter in Sharepoint shows how to accomplish this using a customization based on an HTTP handler.
But that doesn't help if you can't deploy custom code to your farm.
At least in embed codes, you can add locale to the URL to achieve this, e.g.:
At the end of src, add &locale=fr-ca for French Canada.
<iframe src="https://sharepoint.com/sites/Eventrecordings/_layouts/15/embed.aspx?UniqueId=SomeUniqueId&embed=someEmbedCode&referrer=StreamWebApp&referrerScenario=EmbedDialog.Create&locale=fr-ca" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen title="Stream Title"></iframe>
If you don't know which locale code to use, go to https://www.microsoft.com/ and switch the language using the region switcher at the bottom of the page:
After selecting a region, it will show up in your browser address bar:
This is the code you must use in the locale parameter in your URL, e.g.:
&locale=ja-jp for Japanese
This also works for me for the stream's web page itself.
