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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

FinnK wrote: 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  .

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?

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.

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.

Thats good News

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