Installing Locale

Installing Locale

by Keith Sorbo -
Number of replies: 1

I have read many different posts and tried many different things, but cannot get day-of-week and month names to translate into Indonesian.

Here is what I have done:

  1. In ubuntu (20.04) installed locale id_ID.utf8 
  2. In ubuntu set LANG="id_ID.UTF-8"
  3. In moodle set default language to $CFG->lang='id';
    NOTE, if I set language default in config.php to id_ID or id_ID.utf-8, I get error "Invalid current value" in the Admin->Language configuration page.  
  4. The MOODLEDATA/lang/ folder, contains subfolder 'id' where the Indonesian language files are located. (I am curious why the folder is id not id_ID or id_ID.utf-8??) I installed en_US and the folder name here is en_US. 
  5. MOODLEDATA/lang/id/langconfig.php has this line.
  6. $string['locale'] = 'id_ID.UTF-8'; 

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This seems to incorporate all postings about this topic I have found. I don't know where else to look or what else to try. 
The only thing that comes to mind is that somehow there is a disconnect between the way the Indonesian langauge pack is named "id" with the locale I have installed "id_ID.utf-8"

                        

    
    
    
                            
    
    
                                

                                        
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Re: Installing Locale

                                        

                                            by Keith Sorbo - 
                        

                                

                
                                        

                                        

                            

                
                            

                
                                

                                    

                                        
Solved my problem. 


It turns out that $CFG->lang must be the same as the folder name of the language pack. (In my case the folder was named id not id_ID or id_ID.utf-8). Else you will get an error.


However, adding 

$CFG->locale='id_ID.utf-8'

solves the problem. And the dates render correctly whether English or Indonesian is selected.

                                    

                
                
                
                                        
                
                
                                            

                                                    
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