No german letters and language possible

[EPICENTER]

Hello!
I upgrade my old Version to the Deluxe Version, but now its not possible to change the language to german.

1. Gettext is running
2. Database is UTF8
3. the setup is ok
4. I changed the name of the de Folder with the extension .UTF-8, utf-8, .utf8 and .UTF8

But no success! I cant change the language to german an german letter (ä,ü ..ö and so on) are not right.

You can see it on INDEXU Deluxe - Link Management

Maby someone can help me!
Thank You!
Martin

[FSGDAG]

4. I changed the name of the de Folder with the extension .UTF-8, utf-8, .utf8 and .UTF8

See this thread : http://www.nicecoder.com/community/f...-letters-7905/

Some have had to change the folder name to the country code + .UTF-8, etc. You might also want to update the site to the SVN version that is discussed in the thread

[EPICENTER]

I tested the 1.30 Version, but I have the problem ist still available!

Example:

Verb�nde und Clubs

Verbände und Clubs

I tried all tipps!

Folder with .UTF8 and .utf8

Datebase ist UTF8 ..and so on.

I cant switch the languages.

Any idea?

Greetings Martin

[Bruceper]

In order for translations to work, php must be compiled with gettext. This does make a difference.

But in your case you're not even able to switch to the different language. This would indicate to me that the language files are somehow corrupt or perhaps not in the correct format.

Have you tried to upload the files again in ASCII mode?

[EPICENTER]

Hi,
I changed my Apache Config, and now the special letters works.
Can I change die basis language fix to german language? I dont need the multi-language!
Why dont you change the language over the database?

[Bruceper]

If the languages were in the database then it would make a very large database to contain a dozen languages (and growing).

You can set your site to use whatever language you want in the admin panel. If you set it to german then you could delete the choose language block and no one would know that they could change the language.

[EPICENTER]

If the languages were in the database then it would make a very large database to contain a dozen languages (and growing).

I think the bigger database is for the most users easier to handle else to compile their php or doing some fixes into a root system.

I own two big communities one with 15000 Users and another one with over 100000 Users and the database size is about 1 gig for the little forum and about 9 gig for the big one.

So I think a few words for another language its not a problem!
A few years ago ..ok ..but 2009 the webspace and the performance is cheap!

You can set your site to use whatever language you want in the admin panel. If you set it to german then you could delete the choose language block and no one would know that they could change the language.

Ok, but the english version isnt a folder.
Can I exchange the english language with the german one? So I could delete the "german" folder and everything is ok!

[Bruceper]

I'm not saying to delete english.

Log into the admin panel, go to Option - Setup and choose German.

Then go to Templates then template manager and in sidebar*.html delete the code that says SOMETHING like

<div class="left-box">
<ul class="sidemenu">
<%block_lang_selector%>
</ul>
</div>

Now when visitors see your page, it will be in german and they won't have the ability to change the language themselves.

[xmith]

I changed my Apache Config, and now the special letters works.

Epicenter,

Do you mind to share what you changed in Apache to make accented letters work?
There is a large number of non English users for Indexu and they could benefit from your experience, including myself.

[Bruceper]

Compile apache with gettext and ensure the LOCALE command is available