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Hi, first thanks for this great plugin and all rest plugins. I have some problems with this plugin, and problem is when I install your plugin I got an error, in foreach loop of $installed languages inside wp-native-dashboard.php.
So I debug it to find why installed languages aren’t filling $installed array.
In wp_native_dashboard_collect_installed_languages() you are searching for languages in wp-content directory or (WP_CONTENT_DIR.’/languages’) but in my installation of WordPress (2.8.2) languages are stored in wp-includes directory.

I’m very new in WordPress world and don’t know the past of changes, and I really don’t know is there a constant for wp-includes dir like WP_CONTENT_DIR for wp-content dir. And I don’t know why your searching languages in content when they are (for me) in includes folder, but maybe you can tell us

I fix it easily like this changing WP_CONTENT_DIR.’/languages’ to ABSPATH.’wp-includes/languages’, but it is called twice. This is what my function looks at the end, I comment code that didn’t work for me:

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function wp_native_dashboard_collect_installed_languages() {
	$installed = array();
	/* $d = @opendir(WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/languages'); */
	$d = @opendir(ABSPATH.'wp-includes/languages');
	echo (ABSPATH.'wp-includes/languages');
	if (!$d) return false;
	while(false !== ($item = readdir($d))) {
		/* $f = str_replace("\\",'/',WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/languages' . '/' . $item); */
		$f = str_replace("\\",'/',ABSPATH.'wp-includes/languages' . '/' . $item);
		if ('.' == $item || '..' == $item)
			continue;
		if (is_file($f)){
			if (preg_match("/^([a-z][a-z]_[A-Z][A-Z]|[a-z][a-z]|[a-z][a-z][a-z]?)\.mo$/", $item, $h)) {
				$installed[] = $h[1];
				echo ($h[1]);
			}
		}
	}
	closedir($d);
	if (!in_array('en_US', $installed)) $installed[] = 'en_US';
	sort($installed);
	return $installed;
}	
 

I don’t know does anyone have had this problem but this is my fix, and it works fine, hope will help someone. I think to write a blog about it and I hope that’s OK with you, and you probably give us more information about this problem.

Thanks again Heiko for this wonderful plugin!

Yep, this far more nicer and cleaner solution than my, but I didn’t know about WP_LANG_DIR.
I would also point you to make more readable dropdowns for changing languages, I really don’t like en_US, or de_DE I would rather prefer English or Deutsch for choosing.

Now I see that Localization is total mess!
First you mention ja_SJIS, but according to wikipedia SJIS is a character encoding and there is no ja_SJIS because it isn’t valid. Valid patterns are Language_Region like en_US, en_GB. United States, Great Britain are valid but Shift JIS is not valid region it’s a character encoding. Here I have found a lots of information and they all point to IANA text file, but thanks to Richard Ishida who have made a page for searching and displaying everything from IANA text file (and also leave PHP source code).
Problem with IANA is there is no rule, order or relation between Languages and Regions tags so nothing stop you to put a en_DE, as some kind of German English dialect, which is very liberal but is confusing and gives endless possibilities, so no help from IANA.
Now I can’t see only one solution to make “user friendly” names is to display name and language code. And I would’t translate “user friendly” name for me it must bi in Native language like Français, Deutsch, Hrvatski, עברית,…
And yes i think it had to be in array in .php file, I see no solution, but you could maybe sync with WP i18n repository, is there an attribute like native name of language in .mo file or somewhere else?

just wondering, tried your plugin today, loading the available languages for download took 5 minutes, then when I click on any of the language files for downloading, all I get is a pop up saying: Error. Download not available.

am I doing somethign wrong? will check the logfiles later on from home, can’t check now, but if you have another idea, I am open for suggestions.

ok, thx. forgot to mention its wpmu 2.8.2. where is the languages folder supposed to be so I can check? There is definitely no wp-content/languages folder here and yes, its an original US english version, just downloaded…
No I wasn’t asked for credentials, the permissions are set up perfectly, I can isntall and edit themes and plugins from within wordpress jsut fine.

thx. works now with the latest version