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chp:
I'm testing CiviCRM using the demo version online, but when I navigated to one of the top menu items (I can't recall which item, but it may have been either "email" or "contact"), all top-level menu items changed to cyrillic from english, and much of the content of pages is now a mix of cyrillic and english.  I've re-logged in but no change.  I see no way to change the default language of the demo for my machine and can't do much more testing unless I can fix this.  I've attached a screenshot.  Thanks in advance.

chp:
In reading more, I found that similar problems might arise while using the online demo.  Could it be as simple as another user setting the menus to another language?  I eventually navigated to the Admin section and ended up with english menus again, though not through any specific action of mine (e.g. no intentional setting of default language).   Any clarification of this would still be helpful.  I don't want to demonstrate the system to my non-profit and have something like that happen.  Thanks again.

Donald Lobo:

the demo server is used by everyone and as such multiple things can happen on any given day.

If you are giving your client a demo, we do recommend you set up your own install and demo there.

lobo

Hershel:

--- Quote from: chp on April 25, 2012, 07:42:27 am ---Any clarification of this would still be helpful.  I don't want to demonstrate the system to my non-profit and have something like that happen.  Thanks again.

--- End quote ---

As Lobo said, this is a public demo. So if you and I schedule demos for our clients at the same moment and you want English and I want to show them the Cyrillic translation, we will have a problem. :)

Definitely recommended you make your own install for demos.

chp:
OK, thanks.  With Filemaker systems I've used, they pass user configuration to the client so that multiple clients can view the data differently.  In that case there's a client side file or two that helps handle such configurations, and I haven't thought about how it would be done on a web-based system like CiviCRM, but it does seem to be a weakness if different users can't configure the system and displays differently.  What if I have two simultaneous users on my implementation and they both want to have it in different languages or configured differently (certainly a possibility)?  Does that mean one user might suddenly see Spanish menus, or are the non-demo implementations able to handle this situation?

Thanks again.

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