Title: Language support Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Language support * Resolved [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/) * I need some advice on language support. I installed gengo to offer my Japanese friends an option to read or blog in Japanese. * After I activated gengo, I couldn’t set my default 1st language as en_US, wordpress becomes inaccessible but works ok when I set the 1st language to Japanese and 2nd language to en_US, even so I get ??? displayed on the home page. * I looked around the forum but still have yet to find anything to solve this. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/page/2/?output_format=md) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598816) * Did you define en_US as your default in the wp-config.php file? * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598948) * Thanks moshu, * I’ve tried added en_US in WPLANG in wp-config but the site is still having a “ redirecting error” * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598949) * Or do I need a .mo file? I can’t seem to locate it in my wp folder. Is that the cause of this? * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598952) * A .mo file for what? For English? No, you don’t. But you need for Japanese, of course. It does NOT come with WP. You have to download it and install it in a folder / languages/ under wp-includes. * Is Gengo working with WP 2.2? I didn’t check yet. * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598959) * I’ve looking thru the documentation for a .mo file for Japanese but couldn’t find any. Do you where I can find one? Thanks heaps * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598960) * Try here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Japanese](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Japanese) Also: [http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/ja_JP/](http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/ja_JP/) * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598962) * Thanks heaps! Took me a while but I found the .mo file I needed and installed it into wp-includes/languages. * Why is it that I still see ??? under Language? * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598963) * Hey, I’m back with the same problem again. I set default language to en_US in gengo and wp-config.php but page is still not loading * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598966) * Oh well somewhat have it working now. I’ve just added Jap as a new language and set blog default language to Eng and in wp-config, the page works fine. * I realized if I remove Japanese and leave en_US as the sole language, the problem returns. * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598967) * Any help to get rid of ??? will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598968) * I think the problem is that none of your posts is marked for any language. Try to edit a post and on the right bottom there are is the Gengo stuff. * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598969) * Ok I changed it couple of times back and forth and this was what happened. * With default set to Eng and in wp-config, page doesn’t load at all. * As above but I added Japanese language as a 2nd language I got the page back ok BUT 1) with no blog entries and a message that “sorry you are looking for something that isn’t here” 2) load of errors displayed on the right section Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in / home/learns2/public_html/community/wp-content/plugins/gengo/gengo.php on line 672 * But for once I see English under languages and after I click on it. Bingo! Everything was back! Go figure. * I noticed my url has a “/?language+ja+en” on it, but I’m just happy the site is fine now. * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598970) * But Japanese language is still displayed as ???, has this got to do with the UTF-8 encoding? * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598971) * Probably, yes. Is it happening in the template files or in posts? * If template files: make sure you save the files after editing with utf-8 encoding. * Thread Starter [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * (@gostallion) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/#post-598983) * It’s displayed as ??? in gengo after installing as a 2nd lang, also on dashboard and on the homepage under language. * It’s everywhere. But Japanese characters are ok on blog entries. * Thanks heaps Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Language support’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 16 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [gostallion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gostallion/) * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-support-1/page/2/#post-598985) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics