Choosing German Language and Freepbx still speaks English?

General Help
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Hi,

can somebody explain to me, why freepbx webinterface always is english, no matter what language I choose in the language selector ?

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Which version of FreePBX are you using?

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freepbx 2.5

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When you select different languages you should get more or less, depending of the language, translations for the main core of FreePBX. Not all of the modules are localized in all languages.
If you don’t get any language change you are most certainly preventing the language cookie to be set. Check that you have set your browser to allow cookies, otherwise you wont get a language change.

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make sure you have the gettext extensions loaded.

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Hmm,

I am sure I am allowing cookies.

gettext sounds interesting, how and where load the gettext extensions ?

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it’s part of php, if you loaded php from a package it is usually included.

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In Tools for FreePBX there is a menu choice called PHP Info (if it is installed), if you click on that menu you get a nice information page about php. Search on that page after the text ‘gettext’. You should see something like ‘–with-gettext’ and gettext, GetText Support enabled.

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ok,

I double checked that gettext is installed, deleted cookies, cache everything and tried firefox 3 and ie6 on different machines.
I still only have english language.
I am using freepbx 2.5 and debian etch and php5/apache2

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Look in /var/www/html/admin/i18n, do you see something like this:

drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 de_DE
drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 es_ES
drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 fr_FR
drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 he_IL
drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 hu_HU
drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 it_IT
drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 pt_PT
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk  181 Oct  6 12:08 readme.txt
drwxrwx--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 May 26 14:33 ru_RU
drwxrwxr-x 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 Aug  8 20:39 sv_SE
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After running dpkg-reconfigure locales and removing de_CH locale it worked.
However, 80% of all Texts are still in English, I suppose they are simply not Translated yet.
Anyway, I found out that the German Terms like “Hauptleitung” are so misleading that I will continue to use the English language anyway

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Thank you for the feedback.
Feel free to update the German language if you like. In every i18n directory there is a .pot file with the text strings to translate. Instructions for translations can be read on the wiki http://freepbx.org/trac/wiki/I18n

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