Item2086: Cannot change interface language

While changing the language preferences of the browser does change the interface language of foswiki, using foswiki's own means to switch to another language don't have any effect.

-- MichaelDaum

I do not understand this bug report.

It is too brief. Can't you change language with the top bar menu or....?

• This does not work for me. Can anybody confirm the issue? -- MichaelDaum - 18 Sep 2009

I just enabled the feature and it works like it always did. You change language in the top bar to Danish and the user interface is Danish?

Are you asking for a new feature or have I missed something? You raise this as a release blocker so I assume it is something serious.

You have put no Codebase and no Target Release so I do not even know if we talk trunk or release branch.

I set it to trunk as I cannot see anything in release branch which is my only focus until Sunday.

-- KennethLavrsen - 17 Sep 2009

I see this as well, in trunk. Release branch works as expected.

-- ArthurClemens - 18 Sep 2009

Reassigned to minor.

Michael please remember to say if it is trunk or not. I spent half an hour in vain on this trying to trigger this error in Release branch

-- KennethLavrsen - 18 Sep 2009

It doesn't work in either release branch or trunk for me.

1. Browser Firefox 3.5, Release01x00 r5531
2. Enable localisation in configure
3. Using the drop-down in the top bar, select a different language
4. Get a Javascript error: document.changeLanguage.submit is not a function - which is wierd, because there is definitely a form called changeLanguage when you "View source"

l8r - I take that back; that error only occurs on the LanguageSelector page, and appears to be due to the fact that there are two forms with the same name.

l8r again - still doesn't work on Release01x00, but no JS error now; it just doesn't change the lingo. OK, maybe I just don't know how it's supposed to work, but I can't see any way in the code for the language selected in the UI to end up as the language used for the UI. There is no path from ->param("language') as far as I can tell. Reassigned to patch.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 16 Nov 2009

Very, very strange. I did a sustained debug over an hour, and I could see clearly that FOSWIKISID was not being sent with any response. As a result, the change to the SID to the new session with the language setting wasn't reaching the client. In desperation I disabled all but the default plugins - and suddenly it started working. So I re-enabled the plugins I had disabled - and it still works. Now I can't reproduce it.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 29 Nov 2009

Babar thought he saw this too, briefly, but could not reproduce it again. So, back to Michael, the original reporter; is it still SNAFU for you?

• In fact, I think I was lured by it being in English, and when I switched, the text in the default WebHome page was still in English, which in fact is pretty normal So for me, everything works as expected, even for funny locales. -- Babar - 01 Dec 2009

-- CrawfordCurrie - 29 Nov 2009

Michael, if you can still reproduce it locally--can you provide us with a backup (.zip/.tar) of the installation in question? Otherwise I'd suggest to deprioritise/"retire" this task.

-- MarkusUeberall - 14 Dec 2009

I just tried it on trunk and am getting the same strangeness. No I can't tar my dev env as it is partially covered by ndas. I am lowering this to "normal" as nobody else seems to have the problem.

-- MichaelDaum - 14 Dec 2009

Works now.

-- MichaelDaum - 20 Aug 2010