Change of language

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:25 pm

Hi! I'm from Mexico and I have test Serendipity 1.0-beta3 now but when I try language change in the Serendipity Administration Suite,

it responds: "Configuration written & saved"

but doesn't do the change,

I dont know if I do something wrong or it is a bug
somebody can help me please?

thanks.

ghoti · Post by **ghoti** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:56 pm

Did you change the language under Configuration or Personal Settings? The former is for the blog itself, while the latter is for the admin interface.

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:49 pm

ghoti wrote:Did you change the language under Configuration or Personal Settings? The former is for the blog itself, while the latter is for the admin interface.

I first change the language under "Personal Settings" but I don't see any change in the blog interface, and it happens same when I try change of language under "Configuration".

In "Personal Settings" it save the change of language in the option but doesn't do it, and in "Configuration" not even it saves the change of the option.

try changing to the name of the archives sources of languages and could see the changes, but these in agreement with me who is not the correct form to do it.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:05 pm

Hi!

Can you check your serendipity_config table and look for the "lang" value for the authorid of the author you try to change it, if you know how to handle phpMyAdmin?

The "configuration written & changed" only comes on the Global Configuration section, so your personal language is really only affected when being changed in "Personal Configuration". If you re-enter your personal configuration, is the dropdown of the language choosing set to the language you want, or to another language?

Regards
Garvin

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:55 pm

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Can you check your serendipity_config table and look for the "lang" value for the authorid of the author you try to change it, if you know how to handle phpMyAdmin?

The "configuration written & changed" only comes on the Global Configuration section, so your personal language is really only affected when being changed in "Personal Configuration". If you re-enter your personal configuration, is the dropdown of the language choosing set to the language you want, or to another language?

Regards
Garvin

Hi! Garvin
I know how to handle phpMyAdmin. in serendipity_config table the "lang" value for the authorid of the author is "es".

when I re-enter in my personal configuration, is the dropdown of the language choosing set to the language I want

but I don't see any change.

thanks

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:49 pm

Hi!

So the language you want is "spanish", but the language you see is "english", is that true?

Which Serendipity version are you using? Which event plugins do you have installed?

Regards,
Garvin

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:34 pm

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

So the language you want is "spanish", but the language you see is "english", is that true?

Which Serendipity version are you using? Which event plugins do you have installed?

Regards,
Garvin

Hi! Yes. I want the language "spanish", but I see the language "english" .

I am using Serendipity 1.0-beta3, MySQL 4.1, PHP Version 4.3.1 and Apache 1.3.

Plugins that I have installed is:

serendipity_plugin_google_quicksearch
serendipity_plugin_pollbox

downloaded from spartacus.s9y.org

Regards,
FireBoneX

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:39 pm

Hi!

Do you have configured your blog as "Native" or "UTF-8"? (Glboal configuration, not personal)

And can you check if the file lang/serendipity_lang_es.inc.php and lang/UTF-8/serendipity_lang_es.inc.php are existing? Those are the files that should be loaded for you; if they are missing or not readable, serendipity will fallback to english language!

Also note that spanish language version is missing some translations, so not everything will be spanish...

The plugins you listed to me are only sidebar plugins, but I would need the list of Event plugins you have installed!

Best regards,
Garvin

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:22 pm

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Do you have configured your blog as "Native" or "UTF-8"? (Glboal configuration, not personal)

And can you check if the file lang/serendipity_lang_es.inc.php and lang/UTF-8/serendipity_lang_es.inc.php are existing? Those are the files that should be loaded for you; if they are missing or not readable, serendipity will fallback to english language!

Also note that spanish language version is missing some translations, so not everything will be spanish...

The plugins you listed to me are only sidebar plugins, but I would need the list of Event plugins you have installed!

I have configured the blog as "UTF-8".

I checked the existence of those files, they exist.

I try making name change in the archives for example serendipity_lang_en.inc.php - > ~serendipity_lang_en.inc.php
and
serendipity_lang_es.inc.php - > serendipity_lang_en.inc.php
refresh the page and you could see the change of the language Spanish, verifying that the language exists.

but for some reason serendipity_lang_es.inc.php does not take the file although thus this forming in setings, and this same one happens apparently for any other language.

The Event plugins are:

Markup: Serendipity
Markup: Emoticate
Markup: NL2BR
Spam Protector
Polls

perhaps I did something wrong in the installation. what do you think?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:33 pm

Hi!

Yes, it could be that a problematic path setting is responsible for not finding the files.

Could you please edit your include/lang.inc.php file.

There you should see this code:

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if (!defined('serendipity_LANG_LOADED') || serendipity_LANG_LOADED !== true) {
    // Try and include preferred language from the configurated setting
    if (@include(S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/' . $serendipity['charset'] . 'serendipity_lang_'. $serendipity['lang'] .'.inc.php') ) {
        // Only here can we truely say the language is loaded
        define('serendipity_LANG_LOADED', true);
    } elseif (IS_installed === false || (defined('IS_up2date') && IS_up2date === false)) {   /* -- Auto-Guess -- */
        // If no config file is loaded, language includes are not available.
        // Now include one. Try to auto-guess the language by looking up the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE.
        serendipity_detectLang(true);
    }  //endif

    // Do fallback to english
    if (IS_installed === false || (defined('IS_up2date') && IS_up2date === false)) {
        @include_once(S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/serendipity_lang_en.inc.php');
    }
}

If you could temporarily change it into this:

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if (!defined('serendipity_LANG_LOADED') || serendipity_LANG_LOADED !== true) {
    // Try and include preferred language from the configurated setting
    echo "Trying to include lang file: {$serendipity['charset']} / {$serendipity['lang']}: " . S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/' . $serendipity['charset'] . 'serendipity_lang_'. $serendipity['lang'] .'.inc.php' . "<br />\n";
    if (@include(S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/' . $serendipity['charset'] . 'serendipity_lang_'. $serendipity['lang'] .'.inc.php') ) {
        // Only here can we truely say the language is loaded
        echo "Inclusion successfull.<br />\n";
        define('serendipity_LANG_LOADED', true);
    } elseif (IS_installed === false || (defined('IS_up2date') && IS_up2date === false)) {   /* -- Auto-Guess -- */
        // If no config file is loaded, language includes are not available.
        // Now include one. Try to auto-guess the language by looking up the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE.
        echo "Starting auto-detection..<br />\n";
        serendipity_detectLang(true);
    }  //endif

    // Do fallback to english
    if (IS_installed === false || (defined('IS_up2date') && IS_up2date === false)) {
        echo "Fallback required: " . S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/serendipity_lang_en.inc.php' . "<br />\n";
        @include_once(S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/serendipity_lang_en.inc.php');
    }
}

Then you should see some additional text output when you enter the blog, which should help me to see what's going on!

Regards,
Garvin

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:05 pm

I did it already, but it doesn't appear none of the messages that you included in the code.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:39 pm

Hi!

Hm, this should not happen. Are you sure you edited the right file? And did you view the HTML sourcecode of the page to look for the lines I mentioned?

Maybe you could try this:

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echo "Loading language...";
if (!defined('serendipity_LANG_LOADED') || serendipity_LANG_LOADED !== true) {
    // Try and include preferred language from the configurated setting
    echo "Trying to include lang file: {$serendipity['charset']} / {$serendipity['lang']}: " . S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/' . $serendipity['charset'] . 'serendipity_lang_'. $serendipity['lang'] .'.inc.php' . "<br />\n";
    if (@include(S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/' . $serendipity['charset'] . 'serendipity_lang_'. $serendipity['lang'] .'.inc.php') ) {
        // Only here can we truely say the language is loaded
        echo "Inclusion successfull.<br />\n";
        define('serendipity_LANG_LOADED', true);
    } elseif (IS_installed === false || (defined('IS_up2date') && IS_up2date === false)) {   /* -- Auto-Guess -- */
        // If no config file is loaded, language includes are not available.
        // Now include one. Try to auto-guess the language by looking up the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE.
        echo "Starting auto-detection..<br />\n";
        serendipity_detectLang(true);
    }  //endif

    // Do fallback to english
    if (IS_installed === false || (defined('IS_up2date') && IS_up2date === false)) {
        echo "Fallback required: " . S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/serendipity_lang_en.inc.php' . "<br />\n";
        @include_once(S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'lang/serendipity_lang_en.inc.php');
    }
} 
die('Language run done');

The the added first and last line. The last line will cause the script to stop, so that we might see the output properly.

Regards,
Garvin

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Thu May 18, 2006 11:13 pm

Sorry. but I think that I am modifying the correct file incude/lang.inc.php

I did it already the new changes, but it doesn't appear none of the messages that you included in the code.

I think that not this including this file because it does not execute anything.

I have refreshed the page, changed the language and other preferences like the name of blog, added new messages, but nothing of this shows the messages to me including in the code.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:19 am

Hi!

If you entered that "die()" code into the script, the serendipity framework MUST stop after the language output. If not, it means that the "include/lang.inc.php" file you are modifying cannot be included by Serendipity. Did you check the file permissions?

Try to put that die() statement on top of the lang.inc.php file; if that still does not execute, I'm sorry to tell you that you are not editing the right file, or that maybe because of permission errors your file is not uploaded.

Regards,
Garvin

FireBoneX · Post by **FireBoneX** » Fri May 19, 2006 2:22 pm

Hi!

sorry my fault, I erase by error some extra lines of code.

ok, after correcting this error they appear to me the following messages at the end of blog:

Trying to include lang file: / : c:\www\serendipity/lang/serendipity_lang_.inc.php
Trying to include lang file: UTF-8/ / en: c:\www\serendipity/lang/UTF-8/serendipity_lang_en.inc.php
Inclusion successfull.

this is what us want to see?

don't worry

I'm sorry to tell you that you are not editing the right file

you do not offend to me. thanks for your help!!