Platonides wrote:
> John Thomson wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I manage a private wiki for an organization whose users are both English
>> and French. They would like to be able to use some of the Date & Time
>> variable Magic Words, having the results displayed in the users'
>> language of choice. So, using {{CURRENTDAY}} would produce either
>> "Monday" or "Lundi", depending. I was rather surprised to see that just
>> changing my user's preferences did not force this translation
>> automatically, as it does for the interface and navigation links.
>>
>> When my language preferences are set to either "En" or "Fr", using the
>> Magic Word {{LOCALMONTHNAME}} produces "August", invariably.
>>
>> Do I have to create a new extension to handle this kind of
>> functionality, or should this just work and I am suffering from some
>> unknown pilot error?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>
> Since they are content, they appear in the wiki content language.
> If you want to have it shown in the users language, open
> includes/parser/parser.php and at function getVariableValue change
> $wgContLang to $wgLang (remember to do a global $wgContLang).
> But you will need to disable caching there to avoid an "English" user
> viewing the French months after a "French" user visited the page.
Fantastic! Thanks, Platonides!! Worked like a charm!
Thanks to you as well, Lukasz. You've both been tremendously helpful to me.
John
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