Troubleshooting a multilingual joomla 3.2 site after changing the language title

Question

I made a complete bilingual joomla (3.2) site which was working perfectly fine until I tried changing the title of the English language from "English (UK)" to just "English". The reason I did this is because I only want to see "English" on the front end to switch to English.

Even after changing the language title back to "English (UK)", it did not work anymore.

Basically I have tow questions:

1. How do I get the English switch working again and
2. how do I get rid of the country tag i.e. DE and GB?

Answer 1

Problem solved: It looks like it was a bug in Joomla, the error has been reported. There is two solutions I encountered, I only tried out the first one, so I don't know whether the second one works.

• Go to the Content Language tab in the Language Manager
• Open the language en-GB for Edit
• Change the Access from Guest to Public

• Save the changes

• Invoke phpMyAdmin

• On the left panel double click on the database that is being used for your site
• On the left panel click on the table named xyz_languages (where xyz_ is the table prefix for your site) and on the right side you would notice rows from the table
• On the right panel, click on the link Edit that is against the row with lang_id 1
• In the resultant window on the right panel for the column Access change the value from 5 to 1
• Save the row

Note: Make a back-up of your database content before making this change.

Apparently, this should be resolved in the next release of Joomla!. Suggest reviewing the tracker http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=33034 and the Github pull request https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/2714.

Removing the (DE) and (UK) parts of the language switcher module was easy, just change the title native in the content tab of the language manager. Just make sure that the access is set to public.