Translate Gibbon into another language in a Windows environment

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Hello there!!

I found a solution for users that use Windows to translate Gibbon into another “installed” language. You can watch my short solution video:
https://youtu.be/_pBnPa9basg

Summary:

  1. Make sure your Gibbon installation has a 100% passed system check (you will need to installed certain PHP extensions)
  2. Install the Languages you want
  3. Create a System Variable in Windows called LANG
  4. Change the variable to the language code you prefer (requires adding the language to the Gibbon installation). For example: LANG=es_MX to use Gibbon in English
  5. Restart Apache server
  6. Refresh browser
  7. Start using Gibbon in the language you prefer.
    Have a great day!
    Manuel Ruiz
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  1. Change the variable to the language code you prefer (requires adding the language to the Gibbon installation). For example: LANG=es_MX to use Gibbon in English Spanish
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Another step missing in my presentation… Windows must be set in the language that will be used in Gibbon…

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Hi Manuel, thanks for sharing these instructions :smiley: I’d be happy to add these with a link to the video in our documentation, with your permission.

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Of course, Sandra! That would be an honor! :smiley:

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this is great, i will try it next time i need to test gibbon on my local environment, last time i tried arabic wasn’t showing up on XAMPP

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Thanks Manuel, I’ve added this information to the docs here: https://docs.gibbonedu.org/administrators/misc/internationalisation/ Feel free to use the “Edit Page” option through GitHub if you’d like to suggest any changes to the instructions.

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Wow, I’m famous! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hello,I have always to change the language on windows before i changed on gibbon , any suggestion to solve this probleme? Thank you