Redirects regional MSDN websites to the en-US original site to prevent annoying translation elements to appear. They also have more current (fixed) content there.
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//
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// Encoding: UTF-8 without BOM (auto-detect: °°°°°)
// ==UserScript==
// @namespace http://unclassified.software/
// @name Display MSDN + KB base content in English Mikhoul Fork
// @description Redirects regional MSDN websites to the en-US original site to prevent annoying translation elements to appear. They also have more current (fixed) content there.
// @version 1.0
// @include http://msdn.microsoft.com/*
// @include https://msdn.microsoft.com/*
// @include https://support.microsoft.com/*
// @run-at document-start
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
// Gets the value of a single search param.
// Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLUtils.search
function getURLParam(oTarget, sVar)
{
return decodeURI(oTarget.search.replace(new RegExp("^(?:.*[&\\?]" + encodeURI(sVar).replace(/[\.\+\*]/g, "\\$&") + "(?:\\=([^&]*))?)?.*$", "i"), "$1"));
}
// Online help started from Visual Studio (2010-2013 at least)
if (location.pathname.match(/\/query\/dev[0-9]{1,2}\.query/))
{
var locale = getURLParam(location, "l");
if (locale && !locale.match(/EN-US/i))
{
var newUrl = location.href.replace("l=" + locale, "l=EN-US");
location.replace(newUrl);
return;
}
}
// Regular library page as seen from web search
var matches = location.pathname.match(/^\/([a-z]{2}-[a-z]{2})\/library\//i);
if (matches)
{
var locale = matches[1];
if (locale && !locale.match(/en-us/i))
{
var newUrl = location.href.replace("/" + locale + "/", "/en-us/");
location.replace(newUrl);
return;
}
}
// Regular KB page as seen from web search
var matches = location.pathname.match(/^\/([a-z]{2}-[a-z]{2})\/kb\//i);
if (matches)
{
var locale = matches[1];
if (locale && !locale.match(/en-us/i))
{
var newUrl = location.href.replace("/" + locale + "/", "/en-us/");
location.replace(newUrl);
return;
}
}
})()