Question

Using the extremely elegant VMWare installation (TWikiVMDebianStable) I got up and running easily. But I wanted Swedish as the interface language (which is available according to the documentation). Yes, there is a similar question about German in the FAQ. I did what seemed required (changing the configure settings AND put in an "set LANGUAGE = sv" clause (both HTML pages included). But nothing happens. Do I need to restart anything ? (probably not). It was quite hard to find information on this matter. Instructions intended for developers tend to be mixed with user settings information in the documentation. If I get this running I'll promise to write an easy to read howto!

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-- StevenJorsater - 17 Nov 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

If you use pattern skin (default skin) you ought to see a language dropdown in the top bar. Are you able to change your language there?

-- ArthurClemens - 17 Nov 2006

It worked after I rebooted the virtual machine. Is this really necessary? Anyway, thanks a lot! Now I can procede with my projects which I will report on later.

-- StevenJorsater - 17 Nov 2006

It's possible you are running into a problem with SpeedyCGI, which is enabled in TWikiVMDebianStable - basically, rebooting the VM is a way of forcing SpeedyCGI to re-read the Perl scripts/modules - see TWikiVMDebianStable for some tips on this. However, choosing the language via the drop-down mentioned shouldn't involve any SpeedyCGI restarts anyway as this is a per-user-session setting I believe.

You might also want to get onto TWikiIRC to ask AntonioTerceiro about this, or comment on UserInterfaceInternationalisation.

-- RichardDonkin - 17 Nov 2006