Question

I am running a few TWiki sites, most of which use localization so that links may contain umlaut characters but still be "automagically" hyperlinked. This worked fine ... but suddenly no longer!

I've checked the lib/TWiki.cfg files and the TWikiPreferences but can't see that anything should have changed.

I'm attaching the CFG files for erebaltor which is broken (see example here). Also, shouldn't the testenv say something about locale? It doesn't...

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-- TorbenGB - 21 Sep 2005

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Unfortunately the 02-Sep-2004 (and the 01, 03 and 04 variants) don't work out of the box for I18N - see InternationalisationIssues for pointers to the two patches that need to be applied.

-- RichardDonkin - 29 Sep 2005

Finally had time to sit down and work with this. The most basic issue is that my testenv doesn't even list any localization data. Compare the very last section of http://lenz.uni-koblenz.de/twiki/bin/testenv (which is mentioned as a correctly working example) with my own site http://g-b.dk/bin/testenv -- you'll see that the first one has a section called Internationalisation and Locale Setup which is missing in my testenv. The first step to making my setup work would have to be to get the testenv to recognize that I want Internationalisation. What did I miss?

The 04Sep2005 documentation clearly refers to the two long topics Codev/GermanUmlauteBreakWikiWords and Codev/CyrillicTopicNameError for information about how to patch the installation, but I'm confused by these topics. It's a complete discussion history of the patches, but it's not quite clear to me which parts of the discussion actually apply to the 04Sep2005 version. Where's the patch?

-- TorbenGB - 03 Nov 2005

GermanUmlauteAndWindows seems to have the same issue - see the comments there for some ideas, though this was not really resolved.

The patches are fairly clear inline in the topics listed, and others have managed to apply them OK, although attachments would be easier to find. It would be better if there was a maintenance release of the Sep2004 releases but TWiki development doesn't do such releases except for security holes. Fortunately DakarRelease is getting a lot more attention to I18N so regressions will be noticed this time.

-- RichardDonkin - 05 Nov 2005

One other point, given that you are on Dreamhost - they have recently been doing Debian upgrades on their servers so you might find that the Perl version, CPAN modules and/or locale setup has changed underneath your TWikis.

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Nov 2005

See also Bugs:Item879

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Nov 2005

Solution: upgrade to Dakar (beta).

-- TorbenGB - 14 Nov 2005

It's worth noting that Dakar has its own I18N bugs, since it's still in beta, but it may work better and does have the new UserInterfaceInternationalisation feature.

-- RichardDonkin - 15 Nov 2005