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tonalt
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:51 am 
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I have installed couple of language packs to joomla 2.5. Default site language is English, and the language packs are German and Russian.

Now when site updater logins to frontend, switches language to e.g. German from langswitcher and starts to edit an article, "Save" and "Cancel" buttons are now "Speichern" ja "Abbrechen".

How I can keep this "system language" as English in all situations?
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infograf768
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:50 pm 
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The language User Interface depends on the Content Language displayed.
This is the purpose of multilang.

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tonalt
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:43 pm 
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No, the purpose is to show translated content to the end user. Not the system control translations for site updater, who usually gets the translations from translator company in .doc file.
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infograf768
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:28 pm 
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Ask your Editor to switch to his/her language of choice when updating/adding articles.
It's quite simple.

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tonalt
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:39 pm 
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This is requirement from my client, I'm not going to argue about it.

German articles are not visible in frontend if language is switched to English.
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infograf768
PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:22 am 
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You may want to try the Josetta component. It provides a Translation Interface in front-end.
Loading it while using a lang of choice will still let you edit/create any Content Language tagged items while keeping the chosen UI language.
To check the result on the site, one will still have to switch to the language concerned.

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tonalt
PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:10 am 
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I ended up deleting .ini files from the language directory, e.g. language\de-DE . Works now as intended.

I don't understand why it's not enough add content language in Languages menu, you still need to install Site language package.
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infograf768
PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:03 am 
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Because we DO need these inis for all UI when that language is used: modules, articles, forms, etc.
Deleting the de-DE ini files may prevent "normal" users to get their UI translated in German.
Is'nt that obvious?

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tonalt
PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:44 pm 
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I need only the content translated, not system texts.

If there are some system texts that needs to be translated (e.g. "previous" and "next" texts @ blog page), I simply copy .ini files containing those texts back to the folder.

Frankly I don't believe that you understood my point.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:16 pm 
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I perfectly understood. It is your decision if you want to tweak Joomla this way and take the risk of weird upgrades when language files are updated with J version.

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