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Hello everyone,

What are some common reasons that would keep a language file from working, the component just displays the tags like so LABEL NAME, or LABEL EMAIL, etc. I noticed it in Joomla 2.5.4, I have never had a problem getting them to load in any of my custom Joomla 1.5.x to 2.5.3 components in the past, I am stumped.

So I'm just wondering what some of the common causes are that would affect the language file from loading.

Thanks everyone, please leave your thoughts below.

There is difference in the 2.5 and 1.5 format.

The file is not stored as UTF8 without BOM.

yup in Joomla 1.5.x you did not need quotes around the text so it would look like:
And in Joomla 1.6.x+ you needed to wrap the text in quotes like so:
Correct?

I was unaware of

The file is not stored as UTF8 without BOM

Space is not allowed 1.6+ use LABEL_NAME="Your Name"

Per Yngve Berg wrote:Space is not allowed 1.6+ use LABEL_NAME="Your Name"

that's good to know to, I did test it by renaming the labels with underscores and then also added the component name at the start like so: That did not fix it ether, I will give the UTF8 thing a shot.

Have you enabled Debug and Language Debug on the site?

Ok so I turned on the language debug, and made sure that all of the language file spaces where removed from the labels and it seems to work now, that's good to know.
Thanks for the help Per Yngve Berg