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UI Language setting (Perch Control Panel) => I cannot switch the UI language of...
Dear all,
I freshly downloaded Perch 3.1.4 files and copied it on the target server and made the set-up successfully: a/ two roles created (1 primary admin, 1 editor) b/ regions from the target index.php well visible and editable c/ file 'de-de.txt' downloaded from https://github.com/PerchCMS/Perch2-UI-Translations/tree/master/lang d/ file de-de.txt uploaded into the folder /perch/core/lang on the target server
My problem now: In the Perch control panel the language de-de is offered (good!) in the user profil, but if I select it, save it, then log-out, renew the browser and log-in again, it still remains in english and does not switch to german (de-de) language UI.
What am I doing wrong? How can I switch Perch control panel UI to the german de-de language?
Thank you very much for your help and best regards, Ekke (Munich)
You should put your language files in
so that they don't get overwritten when you upload a new
perch/corefolder during update.The second thing to understand is that there are two places that language can be selected.
Hi Drew, thank you for your answer and the instructions.
1/ I followed your advice (de-de.txt moved from /perch/core/lang and inserted to /perch/addons/lang) and created a new user with language set to de-de.
2/ Then log-off and login as the new user, but still language UI is english for the new user (and still for all other users despite their individual language settings to de-de, too).
Notes: A/ I checked the Settings/diagnostic information, which shows 2 warnings: A1/ Setup folder is present and should be deleted A2/ Memory limit is low. Memory use is limited to -9.5367431640625E-7M, which could cause problems manipulating large images. (Neither the RAM on my computer nor on the server nor the server HDD space is low. What could be the problem here?). B/ In the index.php of the web-server there are about 150 editable regions (perch_content) defined (and respectively listed and filled in Perch).
Should I check something else? Or is there a way to reinstall or reset Perch WITHOUT loosing the content allocated to regions already?
Thank you for your help! Best regards, Ekkehart
The "how-to" link to the PERCH DEBUG MODE explanations does not work (https://docs.grabaperch.com/development/how-do-i-debug-problems) "Not Found - The requested URL /development/how-do-i-debug-problems was not found on this server.".
Is it there an alternative available?
Thx and best, Ekkehart
Yes, it's here: https://docs.grabaperch.com/perch/building/troubleshooting/how-do-i-debug-problems/
I found it by typing
debuginto the search in the docs - it was the top result.<Status report (no action)>
Yes, thank you, this helped. I switched on the debug mode now. (Not searching in the docs to find it was stupid by me, sorry, I will improve ... :) )
Now indeed, the debug mode throws an error á la "Unable to load language file: de-de" after stating the action status "Reloading language data". I tried it with more languages (fr-fr, nl-nl), but the same problem occurs, too.
I try to reproduce it with another perch instance, let's see. <Status report (no action)>
You may want to run your JSON file through a validator to make sure it doesn't contain errors.
Yeah, your hint to validate the de-de json file helped! Unexpectedly the de-de.txt json-file does have a duplicate entry, which caused Perch not to load the de-de language (or any other language file even if the others were correct !).
Thanks a lot! I will upload the corrected de-de json file on a later date to Github.
Best, Ekkehart