How to specify your webpage's language so Google Chrome doesn't offer to translate it.

Question

I have a page that Google Chrome insists on thinking is in French. Here's a snapshot of it:

http://yootles.com/outbox/overcleverchrome.html

Note that I'm including a meta http-equiv tag to tell it that it's in fact in English:

<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">

But it doesn't help. Is there anything else I can do to prevent this?

Answer 1

I found a post which might help you: http://www.blogsdna.com/4593/how-to-stop-google-from-translating-your-website-or-webpage.htm

You can either use a meta tag:

<meta name="google" value="notranslate">

Or you can use a class:

<span class="notranslate"></spam>

I hope that answered your question.

EDIT: I Just checked my blog which I offer in German and English. On each language version Chrome doesn't ask me for translation: http://kau-boys.de

I checked my source code and the multilanguage plugin only included this code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en_US" /> 

So maybe your locale needs to have a subregion, like US in this example.