The header of CALENDAR block shows the month name in english regardless the selected language. My environment uses english, spanish, german and french and in all cases the month name appears in english.
I searched language packs customization, but I did not find any string I could customize.
However, it works fine on http://demo.moodle.net/.
Any idea or advice to solve this minor issue ?
This is explained in https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Language_FAQ#I.27ve_set_a_default_site_language.2C_but_the_Moodle_calendar_is_in_English._Why.3F:
"If your Moodle calendar is not translated, then the string 'locale' (for
*nix servers) or the string 'localewin' (for Windows servers) in the
'langconfig.php' file is wrong (or your server is not configured to
support the language). There are quite a few languages that are not
supported by Windows servers and the localewin server can not be set. In
that case, you have to run your Moodle on a *nix server to make the
translation of your Moodle calendar work. See dev:Translation_langconfig for details."
I had to add the required locales.
In my linux server I executed the following commands:
cd /usr/share/locales
sudo ./install-language-pack es_MX.UTF-8
sudo ./install-language-pack de_DE.UTF-8
sudo ./install-language-pack fr_FR.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo service apache2 reload
And that's it.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/76013/how-do-i-add-locale-to-ubuntu-server
sudo locale-gen es_MX.UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 fr_FR.UFT-8 && update-locale
I don't think instal-language-pack necessarely installs a locale for that language
For the avoidance of doubt, the "langconfig.php" file that needs to be edited is the one here:
[moodledata]/lang/[languagecode]
Doing a:
find . -name langconfig.php
will give you a large number of irrelevant results!
It's safer to edit language files throught the Moodle interface.
You need to reload the cache after changing language files.
You can't edit the locale field through the Moodle UI (or, if you can, I've not seen where you can do this).
I totally agree that for language strings themselves, you should use the UI.
Ah, that is more a feature then a problem then - I don't think there is ever a reason for changing the locale as a local language pack change.
If you find one that is wrong, contact the language pack maintainer or contact me.
Thanks Nicolas - I didn't see that one yet. I think it is not related, since the problem mentioned here is in the calendar block and that string comes from the operating system.
Yes Koen. I'm pretty sure it's not related (and mentioned it here just for reference).
