Dear community,

today my bbpress just changed its language to english and it seems like it doesn’t care about the german language file. I haven’t changed the configuration file or something else on the server. Renaming the language file didn’t show any results. Yesterday bbPress didn’t accept my template-folder, so that I had to change its name and then it worked.

You can see, there are many strange things happening on my installation. I talked to my server host and he said everything is alright.

I’m using bbPress 1.0 alpha, but even the stable version, which I installed on the same database, shows the same problem.

Does anybody have an idea? Is there any database entry which contents the language settings?

Thanks,

jetson

[@fel64 Member 17 years, 7 months ago]

Dear individual,

that is strange. What did you change the name of that made it work? my-templates to what, or was it the name of the forum?

There is no such DB entry as far as I know.

There was absolutely no change just before bb switched to english?

[@jetson Member 17 years, 7 months ago]

Hehe, hi fel64. Thanks for your reply!

I just put an underscore at the end of the folder name and it worked.

Yes, there wasn’t any change before concerning my language problem. I tried to switch to the spanish language file but it doesn’t get recognized by bbpress, too. No change.

[@cyprus Member 17 years, 6 months ago]

Where can Ifind the DB entry?

[@fel64 Member 17 years, 6 months ago]

There is none. You make this setting in config.php.

[@jetson Member 17 years, 6 months ago]

Hi,

I found a solution for this problem. It’s a known bug from wordpress because of 64bit systems. Here’s the fix:

Open “bb-includes/gettext.php” and change the following code passage to:

// $MAGIC1 = (int)0x950412de; //bug in PHP 5

$MAGIC1 = (int) - 1794895138;

// $MAGIC2 = (int)0xde120495; //bug

$MAGIC2 = (int) - 569244523;



$this->STREAM = $Reader;

$magic = $this->readint();

if ($magic == ($MAGIC1 & 0xffffffff)) {

$this->BYTEORDER = 0;

} elseif ($magic == $MAGIC2) {

$this->BYTEORDER = 1;

} else {

$this->error = 1; // not MO file

return false;

}

Source: http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/sprachdatei/24-wordpress-deutscher-sprache-5.html (German)

Then it should work!

Greets,

jetson

[@hithamsmadi Member 16 years, 4 months ago]

hi i have website and i want change the languages to Arabic how i can do that

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

It’s OK to start a new topic for a new problem.

To change the language, you need to make a change to the bb-config.php file, and you need to install the language files. There is an Arabic language file shared here:

check out this very nice R-t-L Arabic bbPress

To install a language file, the instructions are right in that area of bb-config.php:

// Change this to localize bbPress.  A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BB_LANG to 'de'

// to enable German language support.

define('BB_LANG', '');

 

You put the file (downloaded from Google Code) into the `bb-includes/languages/ directory. Then enter the name of the file here in between the single quotes for the BB_LANG constant. For Arabic, I think the file is ar_AR.mo, so your config line would be:

define('BB_LANG', 'ar_AR.mo');

There are more files available at that code.google.com site for an Arabic bbPress. It’s actually very nice that someone shared all their work. Looks like there is a localized version of bbPress there as well, possibly with more items translated that were not translatable with a language file.