# Internationalization problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-problem/116209>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 3, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-problem/116209 "2007-10-03T14:42:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@simon1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simon1)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-problem/116209/1 "2007-10-03T14:42:11Z")

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Hi,

I am using the Gloc plugin, and had everything working nicely for one  
language, namely English. When I added a second language file  
(french), I suddenly can’t load any views without an error. The stack  
trace looks like this:

"és "  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc-internal.rb:147:in  
`iconv' ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc-internal.rb:147:in`\_set\_valu  
e\_charset’  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:181:in  
`actual_load_locali zed_strings' ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:180:in`each’  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:180:in  
`actual_load_locali zed_strings' ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:179:in`open’  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:179:in  
`actual_load_locali zed_strings' ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:166:in`each’  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:166:in  
`actual_load_locali zed_strings' ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc-dev.rb:76:in`\_assert\_gloc\_st  
rings\_up\_to\_date’  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc-dev.rb:74:in `each' ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc-dev.rb:74:in`\_assert\_gloc\_st  
rings\_up\_to\_date’  
(eval):3:in `_l' ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/gloc/lib/gloc.rb:17:in`l’  
./script/…/config/…/app/models/operator\_ap\_record.rb:43  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active\_support/  
dependencies.  
rb:203:in `load\_without\_new\_constant\_marking’  
…

I checked that iconv is installed, and it seems to be, so I don’t  
think that is the issue. I also tried explicitly setting the  
character set to both utf8 and ISO-8859-1 for the french language  
file, but that didn’t seem to make a difference either. Has anybody  
else run into this issue, or have any suggestions as to what might be  
happening?

Thanks,

Simon