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Topic-icon Can't translate the notification text into Swedish in social.php

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My site is in Swedish. And I would like the notification mails to be in Swedish. Wich means the Swedish characters åäö (& aring; & auml; and & ouml;).
I've tried with the Swedish characters (and saved the file as UTF8). Didn't work. Strange characters shows in the notification mail.
I've tried the ASCII ISO 8859-1 characters as above. Didn't work either. Another kind of strange characters shows.

How do I get it to be in Swedish?
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Bosse,
Yeah, we agree, that text should be translate-able. We added the comment/like notifications into the last release without translations since it was an admin only function, and not something end user's would get. In the next release, we'll hoping to add language file support for those emails, and think it's likely it will make it into the 4.0 release (later this month).

Unfortunately, it's not a quick change to add it to the language files now since we need to add the link and other information to the email text itself, so I don't have a one-line change to send you.

However, I'm not sure why saving the file as UTF8 didn't work, as it actually should have, I'd think. We'll have to do testing though to determine why it might not work (might need to configure the Joomla mailer differently to send non-English characters).

Thanks for the suggestion though, and hopefully we'll fulfill this request soon.
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Oki.

As you say, it's only for the admin. It's just that I think it's a good service to offer a complete translation when I, as in this case, has built a site for a paying customer.
So if you fix it, that's good. If not, it's not the end of the world...
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We have it as a task. The biggest issue we have with doing it, that we'll have to investigate, is that Joomla loads the language strings of the currently logged in user. On many single-language sites, this isn't an issue. However, if you have a site where the user can select from multiple languages, whatever language the user has selected will dictate the language of the email sent to the administrator.

Hopefully, that should be easy to overcome to force the Joomla default language.. shouldn't be too tough :)

We'll keep you posted on this, and definitely agree that more language translations are better.. we strive to get them all in there, and are pretty good, but sometimes we get lazy, and apologize for the inconvenience.
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No probs, take your time. I'll live... :)
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