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 setting for your system (or display language on Windows^® 10) 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:

Go to the Home tab, and in the Environment section, click Preferences.
Select MATLAB > Help.
Select a Language option. For example, to view the English documentation, select English.
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 context-sensitive help. To change the language of the text in the MATLAB desktop, see Change the MATLAB Desktop Language.

If the locale setting for your system (or display language on Windows 10) is set to Japanese, Korean, or Chinese, you also can choose whether to view the installed documentation in your system language or in English. Documentation in Spanish, French, Italian, and German is available only on the web.

To use the installed documentation and set its language:

Go to the Home tab, and in the Environment section, click Preferences.
Select MATLAB > Help.
Set the Documentation Location to Installed locally.
Install the English documentation or the documentation for your system language. (since R2023a)
Select a Language option.

Set Documentation Language on MathWorks Help Center Website

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

Open the MathWorks Help Center website, https://www.mathworks.com/help.
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.