language problems

[Ligh]

I installed serendipity and accidentally selected Japanese for the language, and now it won't change back. I've even tried deleting and reinstalling from scratch, but even when I select English, either in the configuration or during installation, it defaults back to Japanese.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Serendipity differentiates between the currently logged in user's language and the "visitor" language.

The visitor language is controlled through the s9y configuration menu. The personal language is available inside the "Personal Preferences" panel of the backend.

As long as you are logged in, your personal language is applied. Thus, it does not matter what the global language is configured. If you want to view your blog as a visitor, you either need to log out of the admin backend - or simply use another browser to test it with, where you are not logged in.

HTH,
Garvin

[Ligh]

I tried changing my account's personal language, and in fact it even shows that my account's language is set to English, but all the menus are still in Japanese, even when I'm logged out.

Oddly enough, this only seems to happen with Firefox. When I visit the site in IE it's in English. Except for the "Category list" and "Links" (I'm guessing?), which is really odd.

So I'm stumped.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It might be, that if you experimented with multilingual plugins (did you?) that a cookie got set in your installation which now "stucks".

You might want to delete your cookies related to your blog, then it should work properly again.

HTH,
Garvin

[Ligh]

Thanks, that fixed the main problem I was having.

For some reason it's still displaying those two things on the sidebar in Japanese, but that's not really a major problem since I'll primarily be displaying the entries on a different website, so for the most part people won't be visiting the blog proper.