Language settings

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 21:40:14 +0200

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Hiker wrote the following post Sat, 06 Aug 2022 21:40:13 +0200

Language settings

Just upgraded to recent version - but something with language settings is broken. I set de-de in the site configuration but all texts are in English - what's wrong?

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Sat, 06 Aug 2022 21:57:18 +0200

Grouchy

grouchy@hub.grouchysysadmin.com

No idea what's wrong, but I'm seeing the same. Tried de-de and es-es and it remains in English.

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 22:08:18 +0200

Hiker

hiker@hub.fedcast.ch

Thanks for confirmation - seems to be a bug with new version 7.6

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:01:44 +0200

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

I think the channel setting overrides the site setting and the channel setting defaults to the browser default language. So i guess the system language setting in /admin/site is kind of obsolete...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:44:59 +0200

Hiker

hiker@hub.fedcast.ch

@Mario Vavti And where do you set the language in the channel settings? I don't see such a option.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:42:41 +0200

Hiker

hiker@hub.fedcast.ch

I found it... Hubzilla uses the language which is found in browser settings. But this point should be reworked a little bit - language settings aren't so simple...

In my case:
Firefox is set to German (de).
But Hubzilla searches an other string for German - "de-de" and because it finds only "de" the texts are in English.

There are other German variants - "de-ch" for German Switzerland and "de-at" for German Austria.

So Hubzilla should look for German only to "de" - not "de-de" - or better for all "de" variants.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:51:21 +0200

RockyIII

rocky3@im.allmendenetz.de

@Hiker
or set under

about:preferences#general > Bevorzugte Sprachen für die Darstellung von Websites wählen

"de" and "de-de" and "de-ch" "de-at" in your browser not just "de"

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:33:13 +0200

Hiker

hiker@hub.fedcast.ch

Exactly what I did ;-) On the other side why not to let user set the language in his profile of Hubzilla?

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 08:15:23 +0200

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@Hiker you can set the language with the language app...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:30:26 +0200

RockyIII

rocky3@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti in the folder /view/ there is a link from "de" to the "de-de" folder which used to do the job - seams broken now

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:27:51 +0200

Hiker

hiker@hub.fedcast.ch

@Mario Vavti I don't understand your answer. Which "language app"?

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:31:47 +0200

Grouchy

grouchy@hub.grouchysysadmin.com

@Hiker

It's an app you need to install. See under Apps -> Available Apps -> Language.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:40:50 +0200

Hiker

hiker@hub.fedcast.ch

@RockyIII You are right - folder "de" should be a simlink to folder "de-de" - but its a real folder with content - not language files.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:43:04 +0200

Hiker

hiker@hub.fedcast.ch

@Grouchy It's already installed.