[Deganawida-sysadmin] spanish interface doesn't work

[a.h.s.boy]

A few notes about this and other (some IMPORTANT!) things:

setlocale() seems rather broken, or not fully installed or something on 
deganawida. I don't know enough about FreeBSD to troubleshoot it 
though. gettext() support is properly compiled into PHP, so that's not 
the problem. The OS-level commands aren't working properly. I know that 
the version of glibc has some effect on gettext/locale support (needs 
2.2 or higher), but I have no idea what version of glibc is available. 
And I know that the kernel can be compiled in such a way to support/not 
support Unicode, but I don't know anything about the "standard" or 
normal configuration of the kernel to know whether or not this is 
"special" or the default. We sort of need somebody who knows both 
FreeBSD and gettext to help sort this out.

There's a FAQ at http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Unicode-HOWTO.html 
that might make more sense to someone who has done the FreeBSD 
installation from the beginning.

I changed the header.inc files of santacruz and canarias to use 
set_locale(LC_TIME) rather than set_locale(LC_ALL), since we really 
only need the OS to modify date/time formatting for us (the missing 
LC_CTYPE and LC_NUMERIC may cause a few minor problems, but we can live 
with it).

This change at least makes set_locale return TRUE. Trying to set 
LC_CTYPE or LC_NUMERIC individually also fails.

Anyway, the Spanish dadaIMC translations now display. That's good.

As for other stuff...I fixed a bunch of permissions issues -- many of 
the directories that need to be writeable by the Apache user (www) were 
NOT writeable. "cache", "cronjobs", "images", "styles", and "usermedia" 
all need to be written to by www. I fixed a bunch of these for 
santacruz and canarias, but others may have problems.

I also fixed the "path" in the Prefs for canarias. The path was listed 
as /usr/local/dadaimc/canarias/, but it needs to read 
/usr/local/dadaIMC/canarias/ (capitalized dadaIMC). This was preventing 
anything from being cached, at least, and I would suspect it would have 
prevented new media uploads too. Better now.

I also fixed the stylesheet for canarias so the logo and banner appear. 
The current version still bombs when trying to load the stylesheets, 
but that will soon be fixed with .98 (or I may be able to replace a few 
selected files to fix it sooner).

That's all for now. Too much sysadmining for me today!

spud.


On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 04:22  PM, jonhattan wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i'm jonhattan from imc-canarias.
>
> Our site uses only spanish and it doesn't work, i can't say how long it
> is broken..
>
> i have seen santacruz site and it doesn't work also.
>
> greetings
>
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