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Hi everybody,
it's been awhile.
I've been contracted to put together a new website for a japanese client that wants to make a web presence in mainland china.
I've been using the multilanguage hack successfully for several months on a couple of different sites now and thought that it would be no challenge to make it work for a chinese site as long as I had all the language files installed properly.
But it turns out that when I install all the language files for tchinese, schinese, japanese english and spanish, all of them work flawlessly with multilanguage except for the schinese. In every instance, whether working with official modules or third party stuff (like xf-sections), schinese always reverts to the english entries for the user interface, but content encoded to show up in schinese (I use the tags [sc][/sc]) always comes out fine. I've even tried copying bits of the GB2312 encoded text from the schinese language files and pasting them in between [sc][/sc] tags and they come up ok too. On the other hand I'm not sure if they come up REALLY properly or not, as I can read japanese but can't really read chinese.
More strange behaviour is that when schinese has been selected as the language in the pop-up menu, the administration interface shows the raw php entries for language such as "_AM_POSTNEWARTICLE". It does this in some parts of the user interface as well, such as the notifications boxes.
It's as if the system simply can't see the language files even tho' I can see them there, and having looked at their contents I can see that they're ok.
Like I said the tchinese and japanese interface comes up perfectly so I'm pretty sure that it's not a multibyte problem, after all selecting schinese simply makes the interface jump to English (with those missing bits that show only the php entries).
Anyone know what might be going on?
Jose
