Language files doesn't work

[FinnK]

I have great troubles in getting the language files for modules to work. I have tried everything I can think of, but nothing works.

Nobody on the Danish forum here have been able to answer my question on how a language file is being activated. However I presume this is done by means of the servers locale settings - or perhaps the locale setting in the cmsms config.php file. Am I right?

My server hosts use english locale eventhough their based in Norway as they have international customers. Further tell me their norvegian locale uses "no_NO" not "nb_NO" which cmsms uses. So after trying everything with "nb_NO" and "setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nb_NO');" in usermade tag I did the same with "no_NO" - I tried to rename the languagefile in the modules/news/lang/ext folder to "no_NO" and set locale to "no_NO" in the config.php file but that didn't work.

Then in desperation I renamed the language files so that I had the norwegian language called "en_US.php" in the "lang" folder - then I got the Norwegian prompts going: the norwegian "print" and "return" links from the detail template.

Although this works it is not the right way to do it.

I wonder what is not working here. How does cmsms do to find out the servers locale?

How does cmsms activate the language files in the lang/ext/ folder?

This is now almost the only thing to get working before I can put the site online. Another thing is to translate modules FrontEndUsers and Selfregistration - I have started the work, but it is not fun when I don't know how I will get the to work for me. My Norwegian site is here: www.filmklippere.com/cms

I really hope that someone can help me out on this.

Thanks

FinnK

[cyberman]

However I presume this is done by means of the servers locale settings - or perhaps the locale setting in the cmsms config.php file. Am I right?

No and no.

How does cmsms activate the language files in the lang/ext/ folder?

Go in admin panel to "My Prefs - User preferences" and select your language  .

[FinnK]

I have done that. Norweigan works for Admin, but not for anything else.

...and when I select my language under user prefs. - what should happen under the hood of cmsms so it  picks the right language file for modules?

[FinnK]

This seems to be a proble ONLY for the news module. Translations I now have done for FrontEndUsers and SelfReg do work as they should.

Its when I display news detail I cannot get the Norwegian translations for Print and Return.

[Ted]

This is caused by the pretty urls.  Normally, the lang would be carried over in the big nasty url string.  I'll be doing a lot of reworking of the multi lang stuff soon, so it should clear it up.

[FinnK]

Thats good News

[avegard]

Thanks for the tip. I did the rename of the en_US.php file, and that worked. I guess nothing else will?