Changing Language from en-GB to en-US erases products

[nickwiebe]

I have joomla 2.5 and VM 2.0.20b.  My template came with en-GB and I want to change it to en-US but when I go to extensions/language manager and change the language from en-GB to en-US the content in my VM2 store is gone.  how do I set my store to en-US from en-GB?  I can't find in VM2 where to do this...please help.

thanks,

Nick

[K&K media production]

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=114575.msg385996#msg385996

in your case en_us

[nickwiebe]

I'm looking at my database tables and I have both the en_gb and en_us.

riwb8_virtuemart_products_en_gb
riwb8_virtuemart_products_en_us

but there are no products in the en_us, they are all in the en_gb.  Do i have to manually copy them over and is there a way to do this so it's not one at a time?  I'm not terribly confident in the phyMyAdmin console.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

CSVI Improved maybe?

By the way you could use simple text like files in phyMyAdmin operations.

[jjk]

Nick,

In your case I would simply stick with your en-GB tables. The en-US files are currently a slightly incomplete copy of the en-GB files. In late June I copied the en-GB files on our translation platform at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/virtuemart/ and https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/virtuemartplugins/ to en-US folders. But since that date no American volunteered to adjust them to U.S. English and keep them up to date (Look at the 'Last updated' dates on Transifex). So at present the en-GB files are definitely the better choice in your case.

If nobody volunteers to manage the en-US language files in the near future, I might consider to remove the en-US language pack again in order to avoid experiences like yours.

[nickwiebe]

Do you think this negatively effects my SEO since we are based in the U.S. and using the en-GB?  This is really what I'm most concerned with.

thanks for the input!

[jjk]

From my german location the Google search results for my en-GB pages are identical in google.com and google.co.uk. But as far as I know the results will vary depending on the language setting in the browser and ip address location of the person searching for something. If your site targets U.S. customers only, it might be better to use en-us. I have no idea whether or not the vast majority of internet users from the U.S. use en-US as their browser language.

If you prefer en-us and also use en-us language files for Joomla itself, you could rename all VM language files from en-gb to en-us. This way your VM language files would be complete.

Of course another option would be to take the time and update/complete our en-us translation on transifex.com