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is it possible to switch languages on a page manually?
This is done by appending &lcMessages=fr_FR to the URL (where fr_FR is the desired language code).
When multiple languages are enabled, there is a language switcher block that becomes enabled. ...
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Multilingual instances show 'no such field' errors after update
In the latest version, you can also rebuild the multilingual schema yourself by navigating to API Explorer http://www.site-name/civicrm/api#explorer
Select Entity = System, Action = ...
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How to add additional custom translation for a payment processor?
Just after starting the bounty i have found what i was looking for:
To merge two .po files you'll need to use some shell magic. I did the following:
extract the original civicrm.mo file to a .po ...
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Is CiviCRM available with German admin interface?
You can changed the language by including l10 packages under directory;
civicrm/l10 and with following;
Administer->Localization->Language,Currency,Location
I addition;
Also you can set the ...
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Is CiviCRM available with German admin interface?
Yes there is, for more information about downloading translations please see: https://civicrm.org/download-translations
The installation instructions for localized versions vary depending on the CMS ...
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Default localisation
Defaults for localisation you can set :
Go to,
CiviCRM->Administer->Localization->Language,Currency,Locations
You can set,
a) Preferred languages Options
b) Date formats
c) Addresses settings ...
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How does CiviCRM handle international mailing addresses with unusual formats?
You can control the address format in Administer menu » Localization » Address Settings, so your mailing labels generate how you'd like.
What CiviCRM does not currently do is print different mailing ...
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How to fix translations in CiviCRM 4.7
Exists an unresolved localization issue that probably explains your translation problems. You can see here:
CRM-17737
New Mailer dialog seems impossible to translate
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How do I allow multiple monetary display formats on the same installation?
Here is an extension that might help a bit with money formatting issues in Canada:
https://civicrm.org/extensions/canadianbacon
It basically sets the CiviCRM money settings dynamically when it detects ...
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localization on wordpress
For Wordpress, make sure you have the following structure of files:
plugins/civicrm/civicrm/l10n
plugins/civicrm/civicrm/l10n/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/civicrm.mo
plugins/civicrm/civicrm/sql/...
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Bugs in localization
Thanks. Please open an issue on http://issues.civicrm.org/
There you can also add a diff file to an issue.
If you're really hardcore you can fork https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core, add your ...
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How to print reports with non-English characters like accents?
This is probably caused by the settings for your database? We had the same problem with Norwegian special characters because their CiviCRM database was set to Latin-1. It has to be UTF-8 general-ci ...
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How to print reports with non-English characters like accents?
Although not an ideal solution, if we add the following line in the .htaccess the reports are printed well.
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
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How do I configure a phone number format?
Another normalization tool specifically for phone numbers. Per the readme, it is an administrator tool, not a real time validator.
https://github.com/JohnFF/Phone-Number-Validator
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How do I configure a phone number format?
In short - you can't. Phone numbers are entered as free entry text. That's different from addresses, where the format is about which order different fields fall in; phone numbers are only one field. ...
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Why aren't State options non-default countries (outside UK) showing for billing address on the contribution page of a webform?
I had this problem too on the main Civi911.com checkout form, and then I was all the more sheepish when it turns out the issue was reported by my coworker Tyrell for one of our clients! It's a bug in ...
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Emails templates in the language of the receiver
I think there is no approach for this on CiviCRM beyond smarty approach. We workaround this by splitting receivers groups by their language preferences and sending their separate mails from templates ...
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CiviVolunteer - Where to put translations file on WordPress
Based on this https://github.com/cividesk/com.cividesk.l10n.update/blob/master/l10nupdate.php#L131 it looks like it needs to be within the extension folder in folders 10n//LC_Messages/volunteer.mo ...
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How to suppress translation of months (or all fields) in receipts?
Welcome to CiviCRM SE KLeeHK! I am not sure if you can suppress the translation of particular Smarty tags e.g. {$receive_date} or change the date format of only this occurence. The receipts can be ...
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A small problem with the Côte d'Ivoire
I'm guessing it's whether the particular sort implementation in each case is configured to be UTF8-aware. If I order by name asc in MySQL, I see Côte d'Ivoire just after Costa Rica. If I look at a hex ...
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Default localisation
You don't have a single localisation per country, but per civicrm installation.
The various defaults you can set (eg language, currency, list of available countries, date format...) are in various ...
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Where are CiviCRM's date preferences actually used?
There are actually (at least) two places where you can change the formats. One is where you described, the other one (that affects most of the displayed date formats e.g. in the contact tab) is ...
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DB Error under Languages, Currency, Location
The important part of the log is this:
TRIGGER command denied to user 'db12382598-user5'@'localhost'
You need to grant the TRIGGER permission to the MySQL user named above. Note that if you're on ...
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HOWTO reliably set default Country on Import?
I think the problem can happen if you import your 'State' as the Abbreviation. If you look in table civicrm_state_province you will see lots of States with Abbreviation CA - and unless you specify the ...
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How to add Thai language to CiviCRM in WordPress?
Since it's below 20% they aren't included in the download. You can use the instructions in the Administrator Guide wiki to get the files into CiviCRM. There is also more information at https://lab....
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How can you remove or disable some US states from showing up in profile?
If you want to show only few US states across whole CiviCRM form than you can set civicrm_state_province.is_active = 0 for the ones to not show for country_id = 1228
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CiviCRM + WPML breaks resource links when in non-default language
Support for Polylang has more coverage than WPML. You'll need to look at this code and replicate for WPML using its methods to discover what's needed to modify the Rewrite Rules. Please open a PR if/...
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Is there a way to translate front end forms/pages without translating the backend of Civi as well?
You can avoid the cost of the full multi-language set-up in certain situations; I think you can do what you want with language switcher URLs.
See blog at https://civicrm.org/blog/ayduns/language-...
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Retrofitting languages into English-based Install
To change it to the local language you do not need to make it a multi-lingual site as far as CiviCRM is concerned? I assume you mean that you installed the language pack. If you then want to change ...
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Civievent - Billing fields
Welcome to CiviCRM StackExchange Kim!
If you think that the translation should be changed for all users that use Swedish as a language in CiviCRM (e.g. because it is wrong or yours is better) you ...
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