Content on our site exists in several languages. The default language is 'en'. Prefixes are shown in URLs, such as http://example.com/en/my/path or http://example.com/nl/my/path.
However, pages like the home page, and various views and custom pages, should not be localized -- they should show on the default language URLs, even if they list nodes in other languages.
The problem we face is that after somebody visits a page in non-default language, e.g. http://example.com/nl/my/path and they then go to the home page, the home page is on http://example.com/nl. This means that our the same non-node pages exist in several copies, each with only a different URL language prefix. Confusing for search engines, confusing for users, and heavy for the server (multiple page caching).
In other words, the home page and other non-nodes should always have the default language prefix, independently from the language of the previously visited page. Can this be achieved elegantly (without having to write custom .htaccess redirects)?