Japanese Pack 1.3.7 (Crystal Koi)

You're doing a great job on this CK. Hopefully everybody will understand the need to combine this contribution with actually making a living. If I can provide any help, please let me know.

@kuroi, thanks so much for the support. I would love for some help, I will send you a link to my guide and if you could go through it and give me you input that would be great. This is when its done. Do you speak Japanese? Anyways, pm me your email if you can.

Regards,
CK

I was able to install the Japanese Language pack without a problem. But now there are a lot of little bugs that I cannot fix. For example, when I enter a catagory in the catalog, I will put in the English version of the title and the Japanese version of the title, but the Japanese version of the title gets cut off when I update the site. For instance, I enter Necklaces in English but when I enter Necklaces in Japanese and look at it on the site...it reads NEKU only (A MAXIMUM OF 4 CHARACTERS WILL SHOW UP) and the other part of the word is not showing up (in all catagories). What can I do to correct this problem?

I also have an issue with the Yen symbol not showing up on my product pages (some other strange symbol shows up) and the conversion from Dollar to Yen is incorrect. I am new to Zen Cart and hope someone can help.

Thanks

@crisstyle

Hi, I know its hard to deal with these little "bugs" at 1st. I will be going through a lot of them. I am going to try and finish up the Japanese Pack, at least up to 1.3.7 version of zen-cart this Friday/Saturday. It might be a chore to get it all worked out by then, but I am meeting with a customer on Saturday, and its my goal to have the pack installed by then. I am also creating a write up for the install as I go through it. I will try to address as many issues as I can.

For the name, it can depend on your database limit.

Make sure to always enter information into the site when the cart is in Japanese. That might fix things for you.

As for the yen symbol, I would just use "yen" for now, as that is accepted practice in Japan, I know this isn't a great fix, but it should work for now.

I will post back when I have the pack up and going. Also Mr. Seiji Matusumoto is going to help in creating the Japanese pack for 1.3.8. He works at a college here in Japan dealing with open source projects...what college I can't remember off the top of my head, but he is a great guy and his work is top notch.

Regards,

CKD

crisstyle:

For example, when I enter a catagory in the catalog, I will put in the English version of the title and the Japanese version of the title, but the Japanese version of the title gets cut off when I update the site.
As CK says, try having the Admin pages set to Japanese when inputting page data. I read that requirement somewhere, it stuck, and that's the way we've done it all along. It works well. This may not be related but at one point we were entering keywords somewhere that were not showing up correctly. I had to ensure the page encoding was EUC, not JIS then all was well.

I also have an issue with the Yen symbol not showing up on my product pages (some other strange symbol shows up)
I ran into this specific problem. My computer is not set up to input Japanese, my wife's is, but I'm building the site for the most part. At first I tried copying & pasting the Yen symbol from Word but that didn't work. I had my wife email me a Yen symbol from her computer which I copy/pasted in and that worked. In other words, I think the computer (or the source computer for the symbol) has to be set up to type Japanese characters. Also, to get the Yen symbol to show up correctly in customer emails, the email format has to be set to HTML. Otherwise, you get the hex (I guess) code for the Yen symbol instead of the symbol itself.
and the conversion from Dollar to Yen is incorrect.
I ran into this as well but solved it by brute force. We're only selling to Japan so the dollar doesn't matter for our cart. I only have one currency set up (Yen) so there is no conversion taking place. Before I did that, conversions behaved oddly and since I didn't need them, I didn't spend time debugging the problem.

CD

As for the yen symbol you can use the html accent entity code

¥

see if that works.

CrystalKoi:

As for the yen symbol you can use the html accent entity code

¥

> 
> see if that works.

I just figured out a way to get the YEN Kanji symbol in. 
I pasted in the the following character:  円 and it worked fine.


The other problems I spoke about are still not resolved. I type all of the descriptions in Japanese but the product description is still getting cut off at 4 characters. 

I also have another problem I recently discovered. When I click on a category, all of the sideboxes on the right are being pushed out of the container. I have a really strong feeling that this has to do with the size or font of the Japanese characters, but again, I dont know how to change it. Any suggestions?? (CSS changes for sidebarcontents are not working)

Thanks

Using the Yen Kanji, I could see where that would cause problems in some peoples machines if you are using both English and Japanese, just Japanese you might be fine.

Using the yen entity code would be the best universal solution and I have checked and it works just fine. ```html
¥

As for your product descriptions getting cut off, can you show us an example.  I have done many sites with no problem here. 

As for layout, that will be a css html issue.  You could post an example of that here and maybe would could help you out with that, but I don't really get into peoples css issues, also please note that the pack you downloaded was beta, and the new pack is being worked on currently, most issues that you probably don't even know about yet, will be resolved in the upcoming pack.

Regards,

CKD

crisstyle:

the Japanese version of the title gets cut off when I update the site. For instance, I enter Necklaces in English but when I enter Necklaces in Japanese and look at it on the site...it reads NEKU only (A MAXIMUM OF 4 CHARACTERS WILL SHOW UP) and the other part of the word is not showing up (in all catagories). What can I do to correct this problem?

Try this;
make it view by japane language, before you go to the page to fill up the product name. ( i just see that cutiedevil gave out this solution. anyway it work to me this way.)

crisstyle:

The other problems I spoke about are still not resolved. I type all of the descriptions in Japanese but the product description is still getting cut off at 4 characters.
so your title got cutoff or descriptions? or both of them?

cutiedevil:

As CK says, try having the Admin pages set to Japanese when inputting page data. I read that requirement somewhere, it stuck, and that's the way we've done it all along. It works well. This may not be related but at one point we were entering keywords somewhere that were not showing up correctly. I had to ensure the page encoding was EUC, not JIS then all was well.

I ran into this specific problem. My computer is not set up to input Japanese, my wife's is, but I'm building the site for the most part. At first I tried copying & pasting the Yen symbol from Word but that didn't work. I had my wife email me a Yen symbol from her computer which I copy/pasted in and that worked. In other words, I think the computer (or the source computer for the symbol) has to be set up to type Japanese characters. Also, to get the Yen symbol to show up correctly in customer emails, the email format has to be set to HTML. Otherwise, you get the hex (I guess) code for the Yen symbol instead of the symbol itself.

I ran into this as well but solved it by brute force. We're only selling to Japan so the dollar doesn't matter for our cart. I only have one currency set up (Yen) so there is no conversion taking place. Before I did that, conversions behaved oddly and since I didn't need them, I didn't spend time debugging the problem.

CD

Thanks for the info. However, when I try to load the Japanese admin pages all I get is a blank white screen. I checked the php and everything looks fine so I dont know why the page wouldnt load. I also tried setting the language on the website to Japanese before I entered the info but that still didnt work.

@crisstyle

When your page turns white, you mean you get a blank page? If so, can you pull the source code, is there anything? The source from your blank page. Also what version of zc are you running?

@crisstyle

I recommend following this FAQ Entry and in particular installing the debug facility to find the source of your blank page.

Does the Japanese Language Pack work as-is with PayPal? When I switch the Admin to Japanese and look at the Payments module, I get a bunch of PHP error messages for missing or failed files in:
/catalog/includes/languages/japanese/modules/payment/
including this one:
/catalog/includes/languages/japanese/modules/payment/paypaldp.php

Thanks!

@cutiedevil

Paypal will work in the new release. The new release will be for both 1.3.7 and 1.3.8

There are some old issues that I am working through with paypal, but I think I have most of it worked out.

I hope to have this pack worked out in the next two weeks, but I am in the middle of also writing a shipping module.

I really do recommending holding off if you can until the next pack comes out.

Regards,
CKD

CKD

Thanks! We can certainly wait for the new release and we really appreciate all that you do with this pack.

CD

@cutidevil

No problem. If you need paypal to work right away, copy the files from the English side to the Japanese side of things.

Example:
You don't have this file.
/catalog/includes/languages/japanese/modules/payment/paypaldp.php

You copy the english file from
/catalog/includes/languages/english/modules/payment/paypaldp.php

And put it in the Japanese side of things.

Update on Paypal
For some reason, when I tested paypal last, I thought that it has a Japanese check out page. I mean, really how hard is it to make a page Japanese, but when you select the Japanese drop down, I get nothing but small order changes.

So I don't really see Paypal as a good way to check out for Japanese. I am going to look more into this, but if anyone has any input on this, that would be great.

Regards,

CKD

Copying those files did the trick.

Last night when I was looking for info on the Paypal site, I saw where the language can be set to Japanese for the checkout page. Tonight I can't find it. Anyway, we just signed up for a Paypal account and will figure it out after we're verified and have a bit more time.

Paypal is going to be an additional payment method for us, not the primary method.

CD

@cutiedevil
Even though it says you can set the encoding for the page, it doesn't seem to be working. I am dealing with paypal now to try to see if there is a way to do this.

I will also be suggesting that you run zen-cart in utf-8. There are some good posts on this forum on how to do this, I will also include this in my walk through. This being that you won't have any problems entering information into your cart and you will be able to edit information in your database.

I hope to have this up soon. Soon being 2 weeks or so.

Regards,
CKD

Just a little update on Paypal

I just got it working, well for the most part, but I have found the source of problems. So you can expect this to be working with the pack.

Regards,

CKD

Ok, after a busy 2 weeks, I have most of the pack worked out..well I think I have it all worked out, and I have been working on the documentation for it.

I still have one problem. And if anyone wants to help out, that would be great.
It deals with PayPal and you can check this thread if you can help.

PayPal Problem

Regards,

CKD