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Translated Documentation

Many MathWorks® products have translated documentation in Japanese. In addition, some features of MATLAB® have translated documentation in Korean, simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, and German. If you install documentation locally, a product with translated documentation usually installs the translated documentation from the previous version and the English documentation for the current version.

For information about documentation in other languages, contact your MathWorks Sales and Service office.

Set Documentation Language in MATLAB

If the locale or display language setting on your system is set to Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, or German, you can choose whether to view the documentation in your system language or in English. If the documentation for a product is not translated, the Help browser displays the English documentation.

To change the documentation language:

  1. Make sure that the locale or display language setting on your system is set to Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, or German. In some cases, you might have to install a language pack or fonts for the language that you want to select. Each platform uses different settings and options to specify locale and display language. For more information, see Set Locale and Display Language.

  2. On the Home tab, in the Environment section, click Preferences and select MATLAB > Help.

  3. Select a Language option. For example, to view the English documentation, select English.

For Japanese, Korean, and Chinese systems, you also can install the documentation in your system language. Installing documentation in Spanish, French, Italian, or German is not supported.

To install documentation and set its language:

  1. Make sure that the locale or display language setting on your system is set to Japanese, Korean, or Chinese. In some cases, you might have to install a language pack or fonts for the language that you want to select. Each platform uses different settings and options to specify locale and display language. For more information, see Set Locale and Display Language.

  2. Go to the Home tab, and in the Environment section, click Preferences and select MATLAB > Help.

  3. Set the Documentation Location to Installed locally.

  4. Install the English documentation or the documentation for your system language. (since R2023a)

  5. Select a Language option.

Note

  • The Language preference appears only when your system language is set to Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, or German.

  • The Language preference changes the language only in the Help browser and other help windows. To change the language of the text in the MATLAB desktop, see Change the MATLAB Desktop Language.

Set Documentation Language on MathWorks Help Center Website

To change the language of the documentation on the MathWorks Help Center website:

  1. Open the MathWorks Help Center website.

  2. Click the country selection button at the bottom of the webpage, and select a country based on the language in which you want to view the documentation.

    Country selection button showing United States as the selected country

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