Changing Languages and Character Sets

Since you may be willing to install further languages for your shop, we include directions on how to do that as well.

Please download the desired language from Zen Cart Downloads Section to your local computer. Unzip the files, upload them to the respective languages catalog and admin directories (located under /includes/languages and /admin/includes/languages, respectively). In case they do not exist, you need to create them through your cPanel's file manager or through FTP. Open the administrative interface of your shop and navigate to the Languages option of the Localization menu. On the new page click the New Language button. Fill in the form and finish by clicking Insert.

Some languages require that tha character set is changed in order to avoid text displaying errors. To switch to non-English characters please locate your ZenCart installation in the FileManager, and look for the /includes/languages/ folder under the store's directory. Find the language file in use and search for the following lines:

Replace the en_US.ISO_8859-1 string with the one that describes the charset, appropriate for your language.

Further information about those can be found on the addresses below:

http://us3.php.net/function.setlocale

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_language_strings.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_country_strings.asp

Changing the text on the start page of your shop is done through some code editing. The modifications are done in the language file that you use. In the default installations that is found in

/includes/languages/english/classic/index.php

Edit the file by opening it through a simple text editor and replace the Congratulations... text with the one that you would like to appear. Please make sure you do not change other existing code to avoid functionality problems.