Marafa Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 I want my forum to be mainly RTL , and i am using a different default language than english The system detects the windows language and set it as default this is no valid for large number of users , we need to be able to control the default language Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fosters Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 You could use our plugin Marafa and Meddysong 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marafa Posted May 25, 2019 Author Share Posted May 25, 2019 Thanks , will try it I really do not know what this is not available as a core feature The assumption that the suitable user interface language is always the windows language is not valid for a considerable number of users in several non English speaking countries Trahis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Tiger Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Have you already tried to put your language on top? I'm not sure if this works with other languages but we have Dutch and English language. And English was the default, also for guest. This was not as intended, so I installed the Dutch language and set it to "set as members language. However, for guest the default was still English which was not my intention. So I changed the order of the languages and put Dutch as first language in the AdminCP (system->languages). Since then, the Dutch is also the default language for guests/visitors. Since I was also told that Invision would check the OS language used and use that automatically I can't guarantee that this will work for you too. But at least it work on our forums. 🙂 You can always give it a try if you already didn't yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trahis Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 On 5/29/2019 at 2:05 AM, Black Tiger said: Have you already tried to put your language on top? I'm not sure if this works with other languages but we have Dutch and English language. And English was the default, also for guest. I think this just happened to be working for your case! From the IPS Docs.. Quote The IPS Community Suite attempts to determine the correct language for a user based on information their browser provides. If this can be determined, and you have an appropriate language pack installed, then providing the user hasn't specifically chosen another language, that language will be shown to them regardless of your community default. There are many cases where the translations of an operating system (eg. Windows) is not really good so many users prefer the English language as default for the OS. In my case, my website is about people who live abroad.. so many of my members use computers in other language.. also the location will not be the same so in most case IPS will fall back to English. In general I see no point of having the option "Set as Members' language" in languages if it will be ignored anyway.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Tiger Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 5 minutes ago, Trahis said: I think this just happened to be working for your case! And another case of a forum I'm admin of. I know about the docs. It's the same I stated in my last line, that IPS would detect automatically. We're lucky on both forums mostly Dutch languaged persons use the forums. According to the IPS Docs the suite should have choosen Dutch because for me and almost all my users the language, including OS and browser is Dutch. But still it gave English. So it's not 100% working like the docs say it should work. However, that was may last year. We're a couple of versions further now so maybe that part is better, I won't test again. 🙂 9 minutes ago, Trahis said: In general I see no point of having the option "Set as Members' language" in languages if it will be ignored anyway.. We can agree on that. But it might be that mod will disable the automatic detection. I don't know. I never used the mod/plugin. Trahis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trahis Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I actually just did one simple edit in the code and set the desired language as default! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Tiger Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Cool, why is that not present by default? Can you share your solution with us? I'll keep it as a backup for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 You’ll be able to disable the automatic detection in 4.5. Rhett and Black Tiger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marafa Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 Just noticed it , Thanks , this is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Good things take a while:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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