Problem with Language file

Question

While doing Send-Receive for a specific project, all users get a notice that says,

> Paratext was unable to load the lth language file for the ThurM. Paratext will use the English language file instead. On clicking ok, Send-Receive completes just fine.

We had issues with this language before during registration. The ethnologue (lth) code was missing in the Paratext registry as it was a new language. But now on checking the registry, it appears fine and the LTH code in the registration is assigned to the Thur language.

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, even though the language was available in the Registry, it is still not available inside Paratext. I’m guessing that this is causing the issues you are seeing.

A fix for this has already been completed and should go out to everyone in the next week or so after internal testing is finished. Sorry about the problems this mismatch is causing.

Comments

anon670954,

It looks like John D created the lth language file in the project a few days ago. If you send/receive now do you get that file? (The file name is lth.ldml in the ThurM folder).

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Thanks, anon291708.

kent_schroeder
Domain Team Leader - Language Technology

SIL Anglo-Lusophone Africa

Waxhaw NC 28173

Answer 2

Thank you all!

Answer 3

The update to Paratext containing the new language codes has gone out to everyone (version 8.0.100.62). Let us know if that does not fix the problem.

Comments

Thank you, the update worked and the language code was fixed. However, the back translation doesn’t seem to pick the language code from the parent/standard translation. It still shows eng. What can I do?

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anon670954,

Normally the back translation uses a different language from the standard translation (usually the language would be English, or the language of wider communication). Please note that for earlier versions of Paratext if was important to always use a unique language so as to not change the settings for everyone else in the world using a language like “English” or “French”. However, Paratext 8.0 protects the language settings for each project.

The project administrator should be able to change the language by going to Project > Project Properties and Settings and either creating a new language or selecting one from the list of existing languages.

There is a new option in 8.0.100.63 that allows the administrator to register a back translation. If it has been registered, then I would presume that the language would need to be changed in the registry.

Answer 4

Thank you, anon848905!