[ZendTo] Translations inconsistently applied

Fri Jan 28 14:40:30 GMT 2022

@Jules – Yes, changd the zendto.po files in (so far) en_US, en_GB, it_IT, and es_ES.
I didn’t think about cutting down the language support list in preferences.php – thank you for that suggestion!
Yes, compiled by executing /opt/zendto/bin/makelanguages and observed the date/time on the associated zendto.mo files update as this was done.
I will try some incognito and/or cache clearing, just to be sure.

@Mark – I’m sorry, I didn’t see your previous message.  You are correct, I mistyped, the language *folder* is named en_GB. However, in the UI, the language appears as “English (UK)”, so I typed the wrong thing.

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Hi Bryan,

Were the files you changed the zendto.po file in each of the /opt/zendto/locale/insert-language-here/LC_MESSAGES/ directories?

Remember that you don't need to provide support for all the languages. There's the list of supported languages in preferences.php, you can shorten that list to remove the ones you aren't particularly interested in supporting.

Did you compile the languages by running "sudo /opt/zendto/bin/makelanguages"?

If you happen to be using php-fpm, ensure you restart that service too.

Also, try it in a different browser or a private/incognito window or clear your browser cache, just in case you're actually just seeing web browser caching problems.

Let me know what happens.

Cheers,
Jules.
On 27/01/2022 17:37, Bryan Jones via ZendTo wrote:
Apologies if I’m missing something fundamental.

My basic interest: Change the text of the terms and conditions presented when someone picks up files to something other than the “instructions” on how to change this text.

The existing text, in ALL languages, is generic instructions on how to change the text, therefore (as I understand it) I’m recommended to change the translation of this text in EVERY language (if I don’t want someone selecting a language at random to see *instructions*, but rather at least some attempt at a real disclaimer).

So far, I’ve changed the translation in the .po files for en_US, en_UK, es_ES, and it_IT. I’ll use Google translate for those that I’m confident will be reasonably close, or that I could get a friend/colleague to validate. I believe, for others that I cannot readily verify the quality of Google translate, I will simply use the English text again.

However, on making these changes so far, compiling the languages, and restarting Apache, I find that my translations are not reliably presented. Sometimes the default “instructions” text is presented.

In fact, I can readily reproduce a scenario in which, when viewing the Drop-Off Summary page, when switching between two languages (en_US and en_UK), I am sometimes presented the default (instructions text) and sometimes presented my “translated” disclaimer text, seemingly at random.

What have I failed to do?

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