• Registered: 11/25/2009
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Topic: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

I'm not interested in translating the program, just entering data in different languages. English and Greek.
I've entered some items in Greek but they don't appear properly. They appear with HTML encoded characters instead of the proper language.
I can't find the documentation that tells me what I want to accomplish.
Please help!

  • joe
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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

If you need to accept foreign characters you must either set your language charset to utf-8 or the appropriate iso-8859-X, where the X is a number representing your language.
This way the html is stamped with the charset used.

/Joe

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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

Ok, great. So its possible to accomplish this.

Uhm, exactly how do I accomplish this.. where do I set the locale?

httpd.conf?
Php.ini?
In the config.php?
In the lang subfolder?
With the system-config-language utility (CentOS5)?

I am so terribly confused about this, it doesn't make sense to me and I've been doing linux / web stuff for years.
Could you point out to me what I need to do?

I've never had to muck with an webapp to enable multilingual input before. It either worked, or didn't. This one is in between and I don't understand what to "fix"


Thank you joe

  • Registered: 11/25/2009
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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

I've just read every bit of documentation and most every post on the forum and I'm still at a loss.
I just want to use this program in English but be able to enter things in another language (Greek) and have them show up properly instead of HTML encoded.

Seriously this should not take changing a system wide setting.
How do almost all the other multilingual  php apps out there do it?

  • joe
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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

Go into the Setup tab in FrontAccounting as admin. Enter Install/Update Languages and change the encoding for the en_GB (US) language to utf-8 or iso-8859-X where x is the number representing your language. This will create utf-8 html pages. I don't think there should be any side-effect with this.

/Joe

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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

Excellent. That worked just fine.
Seriously though Front Accounting, needs some better documentation.
That is the worst thing about it IMO.

How big is the team working on it?
And what about opening the wiki to your users to edit. Of course you can overview the article approval process. smile

  • joe
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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

Hey, did you miss the info in the Announcement Forum regarding FrontAccounting Wiki?

/Joe

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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

You have a new wiki entry. smile

  • Registered: 02/26/2010
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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

I have a problem with spanish translation.
I have the es_CL (Chile Country) 100% complete to install in my ubuntu 9.10.
ENVIRONMENTE (# env)
LANG=es_CL.ISO-8859-1
GDM_LANG=es_CL.ISO-8859-1
LANGUAGE=es_CL.ISO-8859-1
I have already install the spanish language in FA 2.2.6 and default but I have partial translation.
How to put the full translation?
And how to make the conversion to make multi-language control in login program?
Thanks for advices.
Best Regards !

  • Registered: 12/25/2007
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Re: Can't enter products with any language other than English.

You will find the answer here:
https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=1018

Login page is not multilanguage,  default language is used here.

Janusz