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Trent Grandey 22 posts 143 karma points

Jul 11, 2017 @ 19:59
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Language Files - What overrides what?
I have 3 language files that I am working with. I'm only using en-US. That is my browser's setting and it is the default setting in the web.

/Config/Lang/en-US.user.xml /Umbraco/Config/Lang/en.xml /Umbraco/Config/Lang/en-US.xml

I'm targeting one alias for the purposes of this post. (I've removed the other placeholders from this example, but they exist in the actual files)
```
<language>
  <area alias="placeholders">
    <key alias="usernameHint">Your username</key>
  </area>
</language>
```
If I put a different value in each file, which should win?

Currently, if I have a different value in all 3, "/Umbraco/Config/Lang/en.xml" wins. I thought that "/Config/Lang/en-US.users.xml" would override all others.

If I remove it from "/Umbraco/Config/Lang/en.xml", it will read the value from the "/Config/Lang/en-US.users.xml".

If I remove it from "/Umbraco/Config/Lang/en.xml" AND "/Config/Lang/en-US.users.xml", it will read the value from the "/Umbraco/Config/Lang/en-US.xml" file.

I'm confused. Again, I would expect "/Config/Lang/en-US.user.xml" to override the other 2 files.

Am I wrong?

Thanks for the help!

Trent Umbraco version 7.6.3 assembly: 1.0.6361.21154
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Chriztian Steinmeier 2798 posts 8788 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 11, 2017 @ 21:46

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Hi Trent,

Very interesting!

It would be very nice to investigate this and find out if there's a bug, or if it's just the docs that are misleading...

As you, I would expect the ~/Config/Lang/{language}.user.xml file to "win" for any alias specified in it.

Just to be clear: You write .users.xml but the docs states .user.xml - yours is just a typo, right?

Another thing that could be in play, could be that the .user.xml files might have to match the language code exactly? (In your example you're trying to override a setting in /Umbraco/Config/Lang/en-US.xml with a setting in /Config/Lang/en.user.xml or am I reading it wrong?)

/Chriztian

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Trent Grandey 22 posts 143 karma points

Jul 12, 2017 @ 12:01

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Hi Chriztian,

The users.xml was in fact a typo. And The filename in the /Config/Lang folder is en-US.user.xml.

To me, the fact that if I remove the setting from one file and it then reads from another, that tells me that the files are all correctly named. If I couldn't get it to ever read from one particular file, then I would think I had a file out of place or named wrong or had my XML misformed.

I think I may have to dig into the Core and see if I can tell anything. It is really not a big issue, but it just doesn't make sense to me.

Thanks for your reply!

Trent

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Nicholas Westby 2054 posts 7103 karma points c-trib

Jul 11, 2017 @ 21:53

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I have 3 language files that I am working with. I'm only using en-US. That is my browser's setting and it is the default setting in the web.

What language is your Umbraco user set to? I think the default is "English (United Kingdom)":

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Trent Grandey 22 posts 143 karma points

Jul 12, 2017 @ 12:02

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Hi Nicholas,

For all users, I had changed that to English (United States) upon install.

Thanks for your reply!

Trent

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