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Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (MorkvonOrk) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:46:08 +0000

On both hosted systems, where the translation of FA does not work, gettext is enabled. At least that's what I see in phpinfo().

How does one check which locales are installed on a system?

On both systems the multilanguage function of phpMyAdmin works fine.

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (itronics) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:14:29 +0000

The translation system works on both php4 and php5 as the whole FA. First you should check if the affected systems does use gettext extension. If not emulated gettext is used and you should check write permissions to subdirectories described above. On the other hand FA does not use write access and you should check if your system have proper locale installed.
According to php manual there is no php settings related to gettext in php.
Janusz

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (MorkvonOrk) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:54:49 +0000

Hi, I've just finished the dutch translation and posted a message about it on the language-topic.

However, I think I have the same problem as user nicafyl. The translation works fine on my local PC (USBWebserver) but not on 2 different hosted websites - one with PHP 4 and one with PHP 5.

I think there is a php-parameter that prevents the translation.... Anyone knows how to tackle this problem ?

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (itronics) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:46:18 +0000

Keep in mind that it is not enough to recode messages .po /.mo to utf-8. You should also declare proper encoding in installed_languages.php. If all three encodings are utf-8 (system locale, messages.mo and installed_languages.php entry) I have no more idea on that issue.

Janusz

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (nicafyl) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:15:07 +0000

BTW, it didn't work/solve the problem. I am going to take "an intellectual vacation".

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (nicafyl) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:47:14 +0000

Actually, you got it. I had thought about this realizing that es_MX is iso-8859-1 but all the locales are UTF-8. But, I then mistakenly wrote this off as English was working. But, English doesn't need a locale/gettext.

So, if I convert es_MX to UTF-8, all should be well.

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (itronics) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:08:30 +0000

What about the locales ? I've checked it on my installation, that without proper locales installed the gettext simply fails silently. For example I use pl_PL messages with no probnlem, but when I copy lang/pl_PL file to e.g. lang/xx_XX and make respective addition in installed_languages.php the xx_XX language doesn't work. Locales are defined in debian together with encoding e.g. pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 or es_MX.ISO-8859-1. Then if you declare improper encoding the gettext can also fail. You can list all installed locales with
locale -a
Then compare it with your FA settings.

Janusz

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (nicafyl) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:19:10 +0000

Ok, I give. After finding nothing obvious on the local Kubuntu setup I decided to listall on shared hosting at site5 where I run lots of other stuff. Everything seems to have installed fine. I added the es_MX.mo and es_MX.po files through the GUI. No errors. Created a new user with Spanish as their default. When I log on as that user it says they are in Spanish but everything is still English. I haven't done a thorough permissions search--just looked in the apache log and find no errors. As it works just like it did on Kubuntu, um, clearly I just need a lobotomy.

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (nicafyl) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:13:21 +0000

Ok, I think we are getting close. I don't have the answer yet but my current guess is that the problem is that all the locales are UTF-8 and (I think) the es_MX file is iso-8559-1. If it isn't then I just guessed wrong when I uploaded it. In any case, I think I am on the right track. Can't do much until this evening as the computer is in use right now.

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (itronics) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:50:26 +0000

Yes, you are right, all seems right although if you have gettext installed, the write access is not needed as the php file is not created at all.

Have you locales-all package or simply locales for es_MX installed ? This is also required to use gettext.

Janusz

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (nicafyl) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:54:03 +0000

Let's look at this again. Here is the current ls -lRa. Unless I am blind, everything in this tree is either owned by www-data and www-data has write permission or it is in group www-data and the www-data group has write permission.

drwxrwxr-x 5 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 .
drwxrwxr-x 23 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:19 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 en_US
drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 es_MX
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 46 Mar 21 2007 index.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 699 Sep 1 18:01 installed_languages.inc
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 new_language_template

./en_US:
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 LC_MESSAGES
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 853 Jun 6 09:12 stylesheet.css

./en_US/LC_MESSAGES:
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 797 Apr 13 15:56 en_US.mo

./es_MX:
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 LC_MESSAGES

./es_MX/LC_MESSAGES:
total 556
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 130652 Sep 1 18:01 es_MX.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 419946 Sep 1 18:01 es_MX.po

./new_language_template:
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 LC_MESSAGES
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 853 Jan 15 2004 stylesheet.css

./new_language_template/LC_MESSAGES:
total 532
drwxrwxr-x 2 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 531542 Apr 7 02:26 empty.po

So, that rules out a permission problem assuming apache is running as www-data in group www-data. From ps -g www-data or ps -u www-data, I get:
PID TTY TIME CMD
7276 ? 00:00:00 apache2
7277 ? 00:00:00 apache2
7278 ? 00:00:00 apache2
7279 ? 00:00:00 apache2
7280 ? 00:00:00 apache2
7281 ? 00:00:00 apache2
7282 ? 00:00:00 apache2
9013 ? 00:00:00 apache2
9014 ? 00:00:00 apache2
9015 ? 00:00:00 apache2

Is gettext installed?
gettext is /usr/bin/gettext

from php5 -m, gettext is in the list. But, of course, that is shell php5. So, finally, from a phpinfo(); call, I get
GetText Support enabled

So, what am I missing/not checking?

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (itronics) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:10:08 +0000

The problem is the LC_MESSAGES folder is owned by fyl, not www-data, so server have no write access to it.
But if you have admin access to your server you can simply install gettext package. This is much better choice than fallback php solution. Otherwise try to set write permissions to 777 for the lang/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES folder.

Janusz

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (nicafyl) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:21:42 +0000

I tried. No change, no file created. I am sure there is something obvious here but I sure don't see it.

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (joe) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:35:20 +0000

Try to give full privilegies on /es_MX/LC_MESSAGES folder (write enable). If gettext is not installed, then PHP will create a .php file to use for the language.

/Joe

Re: Changing languages

null@example.com (nicafyl) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:29:24 +0000

I figure I must be missing something obvious.

Here is what is in /var/www/actg/lang/installed_languages.inc
$installed_languages = array (
0 => array ('code' => 'en_GB', 'name' => 'English', 'encoding' => 'iso-8
859-1'),
array ('code' => 'en_US', 'name' => 'English (US)', 'encoding' =
> 'iso-8859-1'),
array ('code' => 'es_MX', 'name' => 'Spanish (MX)', 'encoding' =
> 'iso-8859-1'),
);

Here is what an ls -lr from /var/www/actg/lang shows:
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 new_language_template
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 699 Sep 1 18:01 installed_languages.inc
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 46 Mar 21 2007 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 es_MX
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 en_US
fyl@paraguay:/var/www/actg/lang$ ls -lR
.:
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 en_US
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 es_MX
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 46 Mar 21 2007 index.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 699 Sep 1 18:01 installed_languages.inc
drwxrwxr-x 3 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 new_language_template

./en_US:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 LC_MESSAGES
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 853 Jun 6 09:12 stylesheet.css

./en_US/LC_MESSAGES:
total 4
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 797 Apr 13 15:56 en_US.mo

./es_MX:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 1 18:01 LC_MESSAGES

./es_MX/LC_MESSAGES:
total 548
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 130652 Sep 1 18:01 es_MX.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 419946 Sep 1 18:01 es_MX.po

./new_language_template:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 fyl www-data 4096 Sep 1 17:13 LC_MESSAGES
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 853 Jan 15 2004 stylesheet.css

./new_language_template/LC_MESSAGES:
total 524
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fyl www-data 531542 Apr 7 02:26 empty.po

No errors from debug or in the apache log.