(I have tried changing the instances I find in search but it just doesn't seem to be reflecting my changes on the front end and I feel I might be missing something).
Are some of these hard coded that being the reason I can't seem to change them?
My easy way to find such words: I use totalcommander and do a string search (alt-f7) over all files in /language. The result list can be used to edit each file where the string was found.
Contact us can be changed in the control panel, general setting, primary. Threads, post, lastpost are all in the language files. You miss it while do a search.
When I say contact us I mean the actual words "Contact Us", not the email address. (If thats what you mean).
I thought they were in the language files, yes, but as I said I cannot find them. If I know which file those particular words were in, it would help me troubleshoot.
aha! I see. Unfortunately that means that if I change it there it will be changed for all any languages, and I don't want that. So I'll just have to leave that in English (which is the main language we will use).
Thanks
I'd still like to know which files to pinpoint for the words above though if anyone can help on that.
I found all of those searching all files at once using those terms in the Language Editor in control panel. It's working for languages I have installed...
As for "Contact Us", I agree that belongs in the language files for the reasons you mention.
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If more than one result is ever returned from the language search and you are not sure which one is used, look at the code and see which language string is used.
Some of the things I want to change, ie the top menu bar (Forum List, My Stuff etc) are in generic.php.
However, it seems I am just unable to change those to Japanese. Even if I change in admin, when I go back to the test forum it is not changing. Very confusing.
I changed it to Japanese text but on the test page when I refresh it all, the English remains. It even shows as Japanese in the php file when I downloaded it to check
(I realise the Japanese doesn't display properly on here, but it does on my Japanese machine).
(I have tried changing the encoding field to both shift_jis and utf-8 but it doesn't seem to make any difference).
I can perhaps understand why the Japanese text might not appear correctly, but I cannot understand why the English is remaining! The English is gone, so why is English still showing online?
I have 3 languages stored. I changed the file I mentioned above. I then checked ALL of the language preferences online (just to make sure I was not looking at the wrong one) - and none of them had changed.
So, unfortunately, that eliminates both a) and b) above, right?
I might be incorrect in this guess, but it SEEMS that only changes I made to the generic file don't appear changed. I have successfully changed text in the portal islands and others, it's just lots of the main links etc that seem impossible to change.
If I change the "generic.php" file in my default English folder, I can successfully change it to Japanese. However, on the front end, whatever language I choose (in the bottom left language selector), the Japanese text remains.
So it seem that the generic.php file in the English folder is being read/used for ANY language? That seems logical explanation to me anyway. Is that setting fixed? If not, how can I make it use the Japanese generic.php file for Japanese, the English generic.php file for English, etc?
OK my default forum setting is english (the default one). I changed the text on that.
My personal setting is a) english --- shows up as Japanese b) japanese --- shows up as Japanese c) english-uk --- shows up as Japanese
Each time, delecting cache and IE cache between trying to set the changes.
Each setting - the Japanese text is appearing. I only changed the text in the default english generic.php. I checked the other files now and they are English.
What does the "default" do? That I presume is the one that shows when people are guests and when I am logged in without changing the settings.
I have just tried it on another machine that has never seen the page before and also in Firefox --- exactly the same. No matter which of the 3 installed languages I choose, it shows the Japanese text (when I only changed it in the 1 generic file)