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I realize this is mostly an english-centric request but when people who don't have a local install to compare against visit the demo and it's been changed into another language it's difficult to find the spot where you can change the language. I'm wondering if in the demo install it would be possible to put a link in a prominent part of the non-civi navigation part of the menu (which always stays in english) to civicrm/admin/setting/localization?reset=1, or somewhere on the "home page" after you first log in?

Hello demeritcowboy,

I had the same issue. I jotted down the steps, counting rather than reading the menu items:

1. On the Admin bar across the top, choose the second tab from the right. This will open the "Administer" dropdown menu.

2. Hover over the 4th option down. This Will expand another menu to the right, Select the first option.

3. in the first dropdown, find the language you are looking for and select it.

4. There are 2 buttons just above and to the left of this menu, click the leftmost button, and you should be set.

It is also possible to reset it from this link:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/setting/localization?reset=1

Just click the link, and skip to step 3.

In the event that the demo site has been set to multilingual, and you can't find your language in the default language dropdown:

1. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and check the box beside the last option (return to single language), then select save.

2. go back to http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/setting/localization?reset=1

3. in the first dropdown, find the language you are looking for and select it.

4. There are 2 buttons just above and to the left of this menu, click the leftmost button, and you should be set.

I know that this really doesn't help if it keeps getting changed back, but at least the steps are here.

Cheers,
Jason

Somebody mentioned there's already a "language switcher" block provided by civi. Tested locally and seems to do the desired thing. Could somebody enable this on the demos?

If you see literal \n's in the "show on listed pages", it's an older bug that's fixed, but if the drupal side was installed prior to re-running setup.sh then they'll still be there.

Might be but I'm just saying that if for example the demo gets refreshed in a way similar to running setup.sh, then that by itself isn't enough to clear the \n's out, if the drupal side happened to be installed during a period in which the \n issue wasn't fixed yet.

Anyway the problem with the demo simply seems to be multilingual support wasn't turned on - the language switcher doesn't display if unilingual.