Swedish language pack and name of months?

**falkon** · 10 May 2006, 06:23 AM

Hi!
I am setting up a site where you should be able to switch languages between swedish and english.
I am trying to fix this as there isn´t any swedish pack for the newest zencart version.
I am running into small problems all the time doing this, but now Iam stuck.
My problem is the definition of the names of the months..
On the first page it states "New products for MAY", but when I change language I also want the swedish translation of the month of MAY.
What I can see there isn´t any file in the languagepack that controls this, hence it lies in the "ordinary" code?
Now it mixes Swedish and English in the same sentance as the word MAY isn´t translated to swedish.
Please advice me.

Best regards Mattias

**Wils** · 10 May 2006, 09:45 AM

Hi,

Not being an php expert, I would look for

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_EN'); or similar, and try

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'swedish'); (or sv_SV)

I'm surprised, however, that it's not done automagically.

/Anders

**rued** · 10 May 2006, 09:38 PM

Filling out all known country locals in the language packs you release is a nice thing to do, so people don't have to think about this so often.

Like in the Norwegian pack I'm putting in:

Code:

@setlocale(LC_ALL, 'no_NO.ISO8859-1', 'nb_NO.ISO-8859-1', 'no', 'nb', 'nob-NO', 'no_NO', 'nb_NO', 'nor', 'norwegian', 'bokmal');

You can do the same in the Swedish just by changing nb_NO to sv_SE etc..

**falkon** · 10 May 2006, 09:49 PM

I do not fully understand what your suggestion does, my code in swedish.php was looking like this :@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'sv_SE.ISO_8859-1');
When I change it according to :@setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sv_SE.ISO_8859-1', 'sv_SE'),
my problem with MAY showing up in english, now turns up in swedish...
Problem solved, sorry to say I cannot fully understand why this fixes the problem...
If possible please explain to me.
Regards Mattias

**rued** · 11 May 2006, 05:16 PM

The "problem" is that the servers around the world is not configured the same way, and it's also different between windows and nix servers.

When putting in all known country locals in the language file the server has something to "chose" from, like in your case the server is not set up with country local sv_SE.ISO_8859-1 so it's choosing the one it knows - sv_SE

Hope this made it clearer. :)

PS! I see that the Swedish translation team for Joomla is using the following country locals for the upcoming Joomla 1.5:

Code:

sv_SE, sv_SE.ISO8859-1, sv_SE.ISO8859-15, sv_SE.iso88591, sv_SE.iso885915, swedish, sv_FI, sv_FI@euro, sv_FI.iso88591, sv_FI.iso885915@euro, swedish_finland

**Svanis** · 11 May 2006, 07:18 PM

For me personally the only thing that has ever worked is using "swedish"..

**rued** · 11 May 2006, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Svanis

For me personally the only thing that has ever worked is using "swedish"..

Sounds like you like being on Windows servers then.. ;)

But anyway with my solution listing all country locals, the language files will work on most servers without having to change anything, also on your Windows server. ;)

**minelle** · 15 May 2006, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by falkon

I do not fully understand what your suggestion does, my code in swedish.php was looking like this :@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'sv_SE.ISO_8859-1');
When I change it according to :@setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sv_SE.ISO_8859-1', 'sv_SE'),
my problem with MAY showing up in english, now turns up in swedish...
Problem solved, sorry to say I cannot fully understand why this fixes the problem...
If possible please explain to me.
Regards Mattias

Tack! (Thanks)