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Hi.

I’m working on a multilanguage and have a big problem. I can’t, in any way, translate system messages that’s being output in the front-end, eg “thanks you” message for newsletter signup and the email being sent to the signed up visitor.

The language works fine in the front-end. But I have tried in hours to get the system messages to change to the language the visitor is on.

I have tried with the translate utility in EE controllpanel, tried creating a new folder in system/expressionengine/language and translate the files need translated and I have alot tried DL a 100% translated language from the language file here on EE website.

I can get anything to work.

To check the lang on the front-end, that the visitor is on, I use this in my index.php

$uri_parts = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
     if(empty($uri_parts[1])) {
         $uri_lang = 'en';
     } else {
         $uri_lang = $uri_parts[1];
         switch($uri_lang) {
             case en:
                 $lang = 'english';
             break;
             case sv:
                 $lang = 'svenska';
             break;
         }
     }
     
    $assign_to_config['template_group'] = '';
    $assign_to_config['template'] = '';
    $assign_to_config['site_index'] = '';
    $assign_to_config['site_404'] = '';
    $assign_to_config['global_vars'] = array(
        "country_code" => $uri_lang,
        "language" => $lang
    ); // This array must be associative

I hope you understand my text and problem.

Thank you for your help.

/ S

Silentium, can you manually change languages from inside of the control panel?

I can change the language in the controllpanel. In “admin -> general configuration” and in my own profil settings.

When I installed the language from the EE site, I also tried to set the language in the controllpanel in both admin and my profile. The controllpanel got translated right but the email sent out from the site and the thank you message for signup on a newsletter were still in english.

Which version/build of EE2.x are you working with? You can find that at the bottom of any control panel page in the footer.

Are you using any sort of third party add-ons?

Do you need both English and Swedish?

I’m using EE 2.1.1 build 20101020

The only third party add-on I have is structure.

Swedish is only the test lang I use right know. The site will have around 10 languages in the future.

So when you offer a signup page, you need different languages to send out the welcome message, right?

I have a form where visitors can signup for the newsletter (see image 1)

After they have pressed the “submit” button they get a thank you message (see image 2) and they also get an email with a confirmation link (see image 3).

It it this thanks you message and the emails that the system gives the user that I need translated.

Have you considered using one of the available third-party add-ons? This might be the easiest option.

Hi,

I can find any add-on that do want I want.

The thank you message and the email text that I want translated is in the “/system/expressionengine/language/english/mailinglist_lang.php”

No plugin that I find translate this and I have tried in all the ways explained above without result….

Actually, I think there’s a bug in there somewhere. I set my system preference to be French, but the welcome letter comes in English even then. The registration form is in French, and the translation has the right codes in it for the replacement text.

Yes, it has to be a bug, but where…

Just like you did now have I tried with Germen with the same result.

Silentium, we’re trying to reproduce this internally, this is what Sue meant. Thanks for your patience.

Are you able to reproduce this? Is it a bug? And if that so, is it in your bug tracker and is there any idea of when it can be fixed?

I am checking. Thanks for your patience.

Can you please try to go to CP > Design > Message Pages > Email Notifications and uncheck “Enable This Template?” as appropriate? EE should then use the language packs on a per-user basis.