Vm not in German

[patrik60]

I have installed Joomla 1.5 and VM rev 1210 on my local server (MAMP 1.7.1, php 5.2.5 Apache 2.0.59). Everything worked fine in English and German. When I uploaded it to a live server only Joomla was running in German and English. VM works only in English though I have installed all German language files. This is not problem for me in the backend but in the frontend for the customers. There also the current date will be changed from German into English when choosing the VM menu. Does anybody have an idea?
You may check it at http://www.thepanyard.ch/joomla2

Thank you
Patrik

php 5.2.5
Apache 2.2.6
Joomla 1.5 stable
VM 1.1.0 rev 1210

[patrik60]

Hello

I can't understand why nobody should have the same problem like me!!! I have found now a solution how VM runs also in german:
There seems to be some errors in the de-DE.xml files in the language directories of Joomla 1.5. Check these files in

language/de-DE/de-DE.xml

and

administrator/language/de-DE/de-DE.xml

they should look like this:

language/de-DE/de-DE.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metafile version="1.5" client="site" >
<name>German</name>
<tag>de-DE</tag>
<version>1.0.3</version>
<creationDate>08.02.2008</creationDate>
<author>J!German</author>
<authorEmail>info@jgerman.de</authorEmail>
<copyright>(C) 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.</copyright>
<license>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU/GPL</license>
<description>Deutsche formale (Sie) Frotend-Sprachdatei</description>
<metadata>
<name>German</name>
<tag>de-DE</tag>
<rtl>0</rtl>
<locale>de_DE.UTF-8, de_CH.UTF-8, de_AT.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8@euro, de_CH.UTF-8@euro, de_AT.UTF-8@euro, de-DE.utf8, de-CH.utf8, de-AT.utf8, de-DE.utf8@euro, de-CH.utf8@euro, de-AT.utf8@euro, de_DE, de_CH, de_AT, ger_DE, ger_CH, ger_AT, ger-DE, ger-CH, ger-AT, deu_de, deu_ch, deu_at, de, ch, at, deu, ger, german-de, german-ch, german-at, german, swiss, germany, switzerland, austria</locale>
<winCodePage>iso-8859-1</winCodePage>
<backwardLang>german</backwardLang>
<pdfFontName>freesans</pdfFontName>
</metadata>
<params />
</metafile>

administrator/language/de-DE/de-DE.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metafile version="1.5" client="administrator">
<name>German</name>
<tag>de-DE</tag>
<version>1.0.3</version>
<creationDate>08.02.2008</creationDate>
<author>J!German</author>
<authorEmail>info@jgerman.de</authorEmail>
<copyright>(C) 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.</copyright>
<license>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</license>
<description></description>
<metadata>
<name>German</name>
<tag>de-DE</tag>
<rtl>0</rtl>
<locale>de_DE.UTF-8, de_CH.UTF-8, de_AT.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8@euro, de_CH.UTF-8@euro, de_AT.UTF-8@euro, de-DE.utf8, de-CH.utf8, de-AT.utf8, de-DE.utf8@euro, de-CH.utf8@euro, de-AT.utf8@euro, de_DE, de_CH, de_AT, ger_DE, ger_CH, ger_AT, ger-DE, ger-CH, ger-AT, deu_de, deu_ch, deu_at, de, ch, at, deu, ger, german-de, german-ch, german-at, german, swiss, germany, switzerland, austria</locale>
<winCodePage>iso-8859-1</winCodePage>
<backwardLang>german</backwardLang>
</metadata>
<params />
</metafile>

Download the german language  package here and compare.

A problem which remains is the date:

If I run the site in German the date looks like this in all menus except the shop menu (VM)

Dienstag, 26. Februar 2008

In the shop menu:

Tuesday, 26. February 2008

have a look at the dot after 26!!!)

If I change the site into English it looks everywhere like this:

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Have a look , no dot after 26 !!!

This means: It's not the date Format which changes in the German site, when going to the shop menu but the names of day and month (the format remains German. The format only changes into English on every menu when I run the site in English (No dot after 26)

I know, sounds very complicated, but I hope someone understand what I mean and can replicate it and help to find a solution!

Patrik