Changing a translation not possible

Geronimo82 · October 31, 2019, 12:23pm

Hello,

I tried to overwrite the next „Benutzername oder E-Mail“ (Username or email) with „Benutzername“ (username) because our users don’t have a email adress added but sometimes try to login with their email adress.

The modification was done by editing the files de_DE.js and de_DE.json. The modificated files are located in /themes/custom/core/l10n. de_DE is set as standard. The same goes for the theme custom.

config.php

‘default_language’ => ‘de_DE’,
‘default_locale’ => ‘de_DE’,
‘theme’ => ‘custom’,

de_DE.js

OC.L10N.register(
“core”,
{
“Username or email” : “Benutzername”,
“Username or\temail” : “Benutzername”,
},
“nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);”
);

de_DE.json

{ “translations”: {
“Username or email” : “Benutzername”,
“Username or\temail” : “Benutzername”,
},
“pluralForm” :“nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);”
}

Other modifications like templates works without any problems. But this change does nothing. Any idee what I am doing wrong?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best Regards

Gerhard

camilobg · June 29, 2020, 1:19am

I have the same problem.
So I tried change the translation directly in the core (nextcloud/core/l10n) but didn’t work.

camilobg · June 29, 2020, 2:36am

Hi Gerhard,

I did the modifications directly in the core/l10n (/var/www/nextcloud/core/l10n/), and works fine!
The cache was troll me. But after I cleared the cache the translation appear in the login page.

zeigerpuppy · August 13, 2020, 2:21am

strangely, there seem to be some phrases that don’t change for me to. (in my case the “User disabled” phrase in the en_GB language).
I have also forced the default language in the config.php.
@camilobg, how did you reset the cache?
I have forced reload in my browser and restarted the apache server which should also clear the APCu cache. I have also restarted the redis caching.

camilobg · August 13, 2020, 10:24pm

@zeigerpuppy these are the steps that I did (considering my language brazilian portuguese):

Alter the translation directly in the core/l10n/pt_BR.js and core/l10n/pt_BR.json.
Define default language and locale, and force the locale on CONFIG.PHP:

“default_language” => “pt_BR”,
“default_locale” => “pt_BR”,
“force_locale” => “pt_BR”,

Update the .js file:

sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:mimetype:update-js

Restart Apache and Redis
So, finally, I reseted the browser’s cache.

I hope that works with you too.
So, if this doesn’t work, then try alter the english default placeholder in the login.js file:

./core/js/dist/login.js