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 someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is 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