Drupal 8 Language Switcher

By Anonymous (not verified) on 8 Mar 2017 at 12:05 UTC

Hello, I am building a bilingual website. I changed the language display here and there:

../admin/config/regional/language/edit/en
English to en

../admin/config/regional/language/edit/de
Deutsch to de

Now, English is shown as en but Deutsch is still shown as Deutsch. I ran cron and cleared the cache but it didn't help. Does anybody know why the language display of my language switcher is still wrong?

Comments

Not for me

sachinsuryavanshi commented 9 March 2017 at 11:20

Hello,

I did same exercise to regenerate this use case.

I have successfully changed Display to 'de'

Clear Browser cache
Try again

English is working

Anonymous (not verified) commented 9 March 2017 at 15:37

Well, me too. English is working. I changed English to en and it is displayed correctly. Deutsch is still Deutsch though I changed it to de.

try it on local

sachinsuryavanshi commented 10 March 2017 at 05:32

Try it on one more local setup just for testing, on my machine its working and i have changed it to de

Yes, you're right.

Anonymous (not verified) commented 10 March 2017 at 10:56

It works with a brand new installation. That is strange. Well, thank you very much.

This is due to configuration

Ismail Cherri commented 18 April 2017 at 16:56

This is due to configuration translation is not written correctly. I had the same issue which I solved by manually editing /config/sync/language/en/language.entity.en.yml file to change the language label to en then did a drush config-import to fix it

Where is that file?

Anonymous (not verified) commented 19 April 2017 at 23:18

I cannot locate it in my installation.

I just installed Drupal another time and the problem recurred. English is displayed as EN while Deutsch is wrong displayed as Deutsch.

You need to run drush config

Ismail Cherri commented 20 April 2017 at 10:15

You need to run drush config-export to get these files in the configuration sync folder

Never used Drush

Anonymous (not verified) commented 20 April 2017 at 10:36

I have never used Drush. Do I have to install it? Or do I just open that Terminal and type in the command? In order to use Composer or Drush online, I have to rent a whole server, my webhosting service told me. That's why I prefer to manually install everything! At the moment, I work locally.

Ok, no problem. In this case,

Ismail Cherri commented 20 April 2017 at 10:51

Ok, no problem. In this case, go to /admin/config/development/configuration/full/export and export a full zip.
Extract the zip, you'll find the files I mentioned among them. Edit the file, compress the folders again, then do and import.
Hope that helps.

There must be another problem

Anonymous (not verified) commented 20 April 2017 at 16:12

Thank you. The files seem to be right.

language.entity.de.yml

uuid: 12e76d77-baca-491e-a061-76b63145013a
langcode: de
status: true
dependencies: {  }
id: de
label: DE
direction: ltr
weight: 1
locked: false

language.entity.en.yml

uuid: a9f42cee-7324-4a2a-af82-e38536edd83a
langcode: en
status: true
dependencies: {  }
_core:
  default_config_hash: lBXDpdDPXQtrfTJQhr6MjRJJEEyYSoRJ0acdvHLsWeA
id: en
label: EN
direction: ltr
weight: 0
locked: false

There must be another problem. It's not the language alone. Please see my other post here:

Site name wrong displayed

My last suggestion is to

Ismail Cherri commented 20 April 2017 at 16:32

My last suggestion is to enable Configuration translation module from core and check the labels there. I had the exact same issue and I fixed it this way. Good luck.

Well, it's the second language installed.

Anonymous (not verified) commented 21 April 2017 at 15:15

I installed Drupal with German as main language. English as additional language. English was wrong translated.
I installed Drupal with English as main language. German as additional language. German was wrong translated.

I exported the full configuration.

../admin/config/development/configuration/full/export

I edited the wrong configuration

../language/your-additional-language/language.entity.your-additional-language

and imported the edited configuration. I ran cron and cleared the cache. Nothing changed. The problem reoccurred.

I installed Drupal again. Just enabled Content Translation. Edited the language names

../admin/config/regional/language/edit/your-language

and was able to change these. It worked well. The desired language names show up. I enabled Configuration Translation and translated the language names. The translated language names don't show up. This is the bug. It isn't possible to display the translated language names.

I guess this issue is reported here:

https://www.drupal.org/node/1879930

Thanks

Anonymous (not verified) commented 2 May 2018 at 20:26

I fixed it that way too!

Any news?

gustavo.marcante commented 14 July 2017 at 23:13

This problem stills happening, even with the updated versions of Drupal and the modules.
Any news?

No news

Anonymous (not verified) commented 2 May 2018 at 20:29

It still happens but I fixed it following Ismail Cherri's suggestion:

My last suggestion is to enable Configuration translation module from core and check the labels there.

EU Cookie Compliance

Anonymous (not verified) commented 21 May 2018 at 14:16

Since I installed the EU Cookie Compliance module, the language names of my language switcher are wrong again. They used to be 'de' (for German, default) and 'en' (for English). Now, English appears as 'English' and I cannot change it using the configuration translation. The website design is broken now since it displays 'de' for German and 'English' for English. Please help!