language setting not working!~

  • deeptii

    (@deeptii)


    21 years ago

    hi~ i just recently came to WordPress and found it quite delighting. however, i wish to have it in my own language, and i downloaded the particular .mo file (i.e. zh_CN.mo), and put it under the (wp-includes/languages) dir, and set in the wp-config.php

    define (‘WPLANG’, ‘zh_CN’);

    and when the page comes up it’s still in English! ARrrgghhh! i have tried it several times… check the spelling, dir permissions… i even set everything to 777 and it’s still English.

    i even downloaded a “Chinese version”… and it’s still English… what’s wrong? Please help….

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    21 years ago

    What is in English? The admin panel? The Default theme? Both?

    Thread Starter deeptii

    (@deeptii)

    21 years ago

    everything

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    21 years ago

    That’s strange. You seemingly did the right things to change the language. I’d try (just out of curiousity) to upload another (not Chinese) .mo file to see if it works.

    Thread Starter deeptii

    (@deeptii)

    21 years ago

    i did that too…. i downloaded spanish… and still no luck 🙁
    i have no idea why…

    does it have to do with my web server being Zeus instead of Apache?

    PHP version is 4.3.11

    Thread Starter deeptii

    (@deeptii)

    21 years ago

    OK… i tested further and it worked on my Windows box with Apache and PHP…

    NOT on my Linux with Zeus and PHP…. 🙁

    anyone knows why and how to make it work?

    Thread Starter deeptii

    (@deeptii)

    21 years ago

    or where is the default english language file for editing?

    elerhc

    (@elerhc)

    21 years ago

    and does unicode (utf-8) work for you? it seems to be heavily broken in the wordpress

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    21 years ago

    @deeptii,
    I’d say all your problem are related to your server’s settings – as you already figured out.

    @elerhc,
    Based on the time I’ve spent around this forum I’d say, YES, utf-8 works fine for the majority of the users. I’ve seen many blogs using different alphabets and writing systems and they all were OK using utf-8. Problems usually arise when people copy-paste from a platform/editor that doesn’t have utf support…

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