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DNN-Connect Brainstorm: Language packs Started By Stefan Kamphuis (40F) This topic is a follow up on the brainstorm session held at DNN-Connect 2023. For more info, check this blog post. This thread can be used for discussions and contacting the lead for the topic, and to keep the community posted on achievements. Localization With mostly European attendees, localization is always an interesting topic. Vicenc Masanas voluteered to take the lead for two topics here: Language packs	2	1196	0	6/22/2023 8:01 AM by Stefan Kamphuis (40F)
DNN 10 Language packs. Started By David Lee Are the language packs still included with DNN 10 I've installed the 10.1.0 version and there are no language packs to deploy. I have had to download the DNN9 language package and install. Does anyone know the policy with language packs in DNN 10	1	321	2	9/15/2025 6:04 AM by David Lee
Arabic language pack Started By Vicenç Masanas Does anyone have an Arabic language pack for DNN I've been looking around but can't find any		194	1	9/9/2025 5:59 AM by Vicenç Masanas
Site Alias options for backup English pages - what's best to avoid SEO issues? Started By David Fenske Hi DNN Friends, I'm setting up a number of international-language portals in my current project. There are a couple that will have localized content, but also some that just need a non-English default language. For example, the German-language site does not need to have English-language content pages. When I add the DE-DE language pack and set that as the default language, I'm retaining English as the system backup language, but I won't be enabling the content localization. When the S...	5	574	1	12/9/2024 2:33 PM by David Fenske
Rolename localization Started By Peter Donker I am working on making the (System/Core) role names localizable. That is: Administrators/Registered Users/etc can be shown in the lnaguage of the logged in user. This could include the description as well. My question is this: shall we make the system rolename description non-editable AND put in a little bit more effort in providing a proper description/explanation of what the role does Currently the description is not very helpful for system roles (the description of Registered Users is 'Regis...	16	1039	3	10/2/2024 6:18 AM by Peter Donker
Malformed Resource Files: # Started By G_Papadopolis DNN Platform v. 09.13.04 (0) 0'>.Net Framework 4.8 Errors reported in PB>Site Settings>Languages>Verify Language Resource Files Malformed Resource Files: 146 Error Logging report (Typical) [WARN] DotNetNuke.Services.Localization.LocalizationProvider - Missing localization key. key:ControlTitle_.Text resFileRoot:/DesktopModules/Hotcakes/Checkout/App_LocalResources/CheckoutView threadCulture:en-US userlan: Possible cause/solution/problems due to errors Thanks GP	5	555	2	11/4/2024 3:39 PM by G_Papadopolis
DNN Platform Site localization Started By raman Hello, We are using DNN Platform 9.13.0. We are looking to translate/provide the website in the following languages: I am little new to this, can you please point me in the right direction. Spanish French Italian German Simplified Chinese Japanese I can see the following packs here - https://www.dnnsoftware.c...nload/language-packs (de-DE, fr-FR, it-IT) To test things out - I have installed 'fr-FR' core language pack. Under Admin -> Site Settings -> Languages. I can s...	34	3764	2	2/14/2024 2:11 PM by raman
Translate all labels from login module Started By Marco Alvarado Hi guys, anyone can remind me the location for the resources file where the login module labels are located in order to translate those to the language my client requires. Thanks in advanced.	9	887	0	2/26/2024 6:25 PM by Marco Alvarado
DNN-Connect Brainstorm: Localization - Text search Started By Stefan Kamphuis (40F) This topic is a follow up on the brainstorm session held at DNN-Connect 2023. For more info, check this blog post. This thread can be used for discussions and contacting the lead for the topic, and to keep the community posted on achievements. Localization With mostly European attendees, localization is always an interesting topic. Vicenc Masanas voluteered to take the lead for two topics here: ML: Search for key/text (across files)	4	1315	2	6/22/2023 8:00 AM by Stefan Kamphuis (40F)
Language Cookie Started By Timo Breumelhof. I noticed that the language cookie is a session cookie. Wouldn't it be more logical is it would be a 'permanent' cookie I'm using an EN browser and when I visit an ML DNN site, it never reminds my language choice. Every time I re-visit the site I'm directed to the EN pages, which becomes quite annoying on the long run TBH. Or am I missing a use case	8	3392	3	3/30/2021 7:50 AM by Timo Breumelhof.

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