# GetText: Works with en\_GB and en\_US, but doesn't with de\_DE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 11, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148 "2006-01-11T14:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/1 "2006-01-11T14:04:18Z")
Hi all I’m trying to get GetText to work. I have the following folder structure: |-myapp.pot |-de\_DE/: | `-myapp.po |-en_GB/: |`-myapp.po |-en\_US/: ``-myapp.po I run rake updatepo, and then rake makemo. Now I set en-gb as default language in Firefox and run my app \>\> works! Then I set en-us as default language in Firefox and run my app \>\> works, too! Last but not least I set de-de as default language in Firefox and run my app \>\> Failure! NoMethodError in Member#register You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.unpack * * * RAILS\_ROOT: script/…/config/… Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace ## /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:66:in `load_from_stream' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:229:in`load\_from\_file’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:229:in `open' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:229:in`load\_from\_file’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:38:in `open’ … … What’s the problem?? I just don’t get it to work… Any help is very appreciated. 🙂 Btw. how can I set a default language, so if the default language of the browser is not supported it displays the page e.g. in german? Thanks a lot. Josh ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/2 "2006-01-11T14:11:15Z")
OK I just found out, that when I set “Arabic/Qatar” (ar-qa) as default language then the app works well and displays the stuff that I have written originally in the rhtml files with the \_() function. So when a language is not supported, then it displays me this default stuff, right? So far, so good - the de\_DE still does not work… :-/ ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/3 "2006-01-11T14:27:56Z")
Hi, On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:11:15 +0100 Joshua M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > OK I just found out, that when I set “Arabic/Qatar” (ar-qa) as default > language then the app works well and displays the stuff that I have > written originally in the rhtml files with the \_() function. > So when a language is not supported, then it displays me this default > stuff, right? Right. > So far, so good - the de\_DE still does not work… :-/ Send me your whole application, if you can. I’ll investigate it. ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/4 "2006-01-11T15:10:48Z")
Hi, On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:40:58 +0100 Joshua M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Send me your whole application, if you can. > > > > I’ll investigate it. > > Thanks. Where can I send it to? To me. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/5 "2006-02-09T13:57:07Z")
> Now I set en-gb as default language in Firefox and run my app \>\> works! > Then I set en-us as default language in Firefox and run my app \>\> works, > too! > Last but not least I set de-de as default language in Firefox and run my > app \>\> Failure! I had similar problem but I didn’t get any error message so your problem might be different. Anyway make sure that your server has de\_DE locales installed. Check this with “locale -a” command, if not then install them. There is no info about this at Ruby gettext page. ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/6 "2006-01-11T14:40:58Z")
> Send me your whole application, if you can. > > I’ll investigate it. Thanks. Where can I send it to? ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/7 "2006-02-09T14:12:36Z")
Hi, On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:57:07 +0100 Grzegorz D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Now I set en-gb as default language in Firefox and run my app \>\> works! > > Then I set en-us as default language in Firefox and run my app \>\> works, > > too! > > Last but not least I set de-de as default language in Firefox and run my > > app \>\> Failure! > > I had similar problem but I didn’t get any error message so your problem > might be different. Anyway make sure that your server has de\_DE locales > installed. Check this with “locale -a” command, if not then install > them. There is no info about this at Ruby gettext page. Ruby-GetText-Package doesn’t depend on the system locale. If you have a translated po file in po/#{lang}/ correctly, it will be shown the language even if your server doesn’t support your locale. Anyway, I investigated his program … And in his case, he didn’t translate po/de\_DE/hisapp.po, so English was shown 😉 ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/8 "2006-02-09T14:47:48Z")
> Ruby-GetText-Package doesn’t depend on the system locale. > If you have a translated po file in po/#{lang}/ correctly, > it will be shown the language even if your server doesn’t support your > locale. OK I understand. I guess that there is something wrong with my gettext package configuration. Please look below, I execute the hello.rb example: greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ ls locale/ cs de el es fr it ja ko nl pt\_BR sv greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC\_ALL=de\_DE.utf8 ruby hello.rb Hallo Welt greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC\_ALL=ko\_KR.utf8 ruby hello.rb Hello World greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC\_ALL=sv\_SE.utf8 ruby hello.rb Hello World greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC\_ALL=sv\_FI.utf8 ruby hello.rb Hello World greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC\_ALL=cs\_CZ.utf8 ruby hello.rb Ahoj SvÄ?te greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ locale -a C cs\_CZ.utf8 de\_DE.utf8 en\_US.utf8 es\_ES.utf8 fr\_FR.utf8 hu\_HU.utf8 it\_IT.utf8 ja\_JP.utf8 pl\_PL.utf8 POSIX pt\_PT.utf8 ru\_RU.utf8 zh\_CN.utf8 after adding ko\_KR.UTF-8 UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen and executing locale-gen (Ubuntu 5.10 linux disto) greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC\_ALL=ko\_KR.utf8 ruby hello.rb ì??ë?? ì?¸ì? Works. I guess that there is a different way of changing a lang to use by hello example. Regards, GD ---
**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-works-with-en-gb-and-en-us-but-doesnt-with-de-de/52148/9 "2006-02-09T15:42:41Z")
Hi, On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:47:48 +0100 Grzegorz D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Ruby-GetText-Package doesn’t depend on the system locale. > > If you have a translated po file in po/#{lang}/ correctly, > > it will be shown the language even if your server doesn’t support your > > locale. > > OK I understand. I guess that there is something wrong with my gettext > package configuration. Please look below, I execute the hello.rb > > Works. I guess that there is a different way of changing a lang to use > by hello example. Ah, I see. Ruby-GetText-Package depends on system locale if you use it on the console. But “gettext/rails” doesn’t depend on system locale. #Because the information is from the www browser(not server side). Here is Rails ML, so I answered the behavior of it on Rails. P.S. If you’re interested in it, check gettext/cgi.rb. And the url below may help you: [http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-cgi.html#How+to+get+the+locale+information+from+WWW+browser](http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-cgi.html#How+to+get+the+locale+information+from+WWW+browser)