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Hi, I have downloaded latest stable version and have found out that saving localization settings does not work.

Also the main menu bar is not being translated whatever I do. After searching why on the forums and documentation I ended up downloading the 3.1 beta and guess what ? Menu bar is being translated and I can now save the language settings!

Civicrm is a great piece of work but this should not happen. When choosing a stable version civicrm should not have such bugs (the main menu is central, you cannot ignore it, and localization settings are very important for many people), while I can understand that a beta version have some waiting to be corrected!

Quote from: Piotr Szotkowski on January 19, 2010, 09:24:54 pm

Do you use a multilingual Joomla installation? If so, CiviCRM is most probably inheriting your Joomla language choice (if it’s not, then it’s a bug). CiviCRM 3.1 introduced the ability to choose whether Joomla’s language is inherited or not (defaulting to not inherit).

Not really. I'm using joomla with only french added to base language which is english. French is default language on this install and on 3.0.3 I've never seen the menu bar translated to french (so no inheritance here).

Also I did not check at any time the multilanguage option in civicrm language settings (since the functionality is still experimental).

Well i'm now on 3.1 beta so I can't check out 3.0. All I can say is that when switching default language to english in joomla (in civicrm language settings panel, cms inheritance unchecked), logging out from the joomla backoffice and then relogging with english language, then civicrm 3.1 beta remains in french (menu bar and nearly all interface translated).