Title: Wrong language
Last modified: November 27, 2019

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# Wrong language

 *  Resolved [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/)
 * (@alhbin)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/)
 * Building a new site with Woo commerce. However – I get it all in English even
   though all settings on site is Swedish. I also setup “Swedish” everywhere in 
   the setup-process. Cant figure out why this is not working.
 * I installed Woo commerce on another site using same Theme (Divi) andon same hosting(
   Pressidium) a couple of weeks ago, and there it is fine, all backend and frontend
   in Swedish!
 * Only difference as fas as I am aware of is that the previous was in WP 5.2 and
   the latter with problems in WP 5.3. Could there be a bug in 5.3/Woo ?
 * Someone have a tip how to get it working?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwrong-language-12%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [braehler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braehler/)
 * (@braehler)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/#post-12184135)
 * [@alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/)
    I think that the latest
   update of Woocommerce has overridden your language file. SO you have to upload
   it again
 *  Thread Starter [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/)
 * (@alhbin)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/#post-12184375)
 * Well, I have actually not updated anything, it was the very first install downloading
   version 3.8.0 from here.
 * I think I found the language file under /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/i18n/
   languages (woocommerce.pot). I tried to replace it with a Swedish file I downloaded
   from here – [https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/woocommerce/stable/sv/default/](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/woocommerce/stable/sv/default/)(
   downloaded a .po file and renamed it .pot) – but it still displayed English (
   cleared all caches also) – so I guess it was the wrong place?
 * Can someone please advise where to find the language file to replace. And of 
   course I need future updates to work.
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/#post-12184391)
 * [@alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/) The translations that 
   are used when a page is run/created are always an mo file. (That’s a compiled
   version of the po file.)
    A .pot (po template) is, generally speaking, a po file
   that only contains the source strings.
 * Since WordPress version 4.6, any translation supplied from the repo of wordpress.
   org takes precedence over translations supplied inside a plugin.
    The Swedish
   translation of WooCommerce would reside in /wp-content/languages/plugins/woocommerce-
   sv_SE.mo
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/#post-12184400)
 * Also, check your language setting under Admin → Settings → General (Inställningar
   → Allmänt)
    (If you see only the admin panel in Swedish, then it’s possible that
   you changed the admin language for your account only, under Användare → Din profil/
   Users → Your Account)
 *  Thread Starter [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/)
 * (@alhbin)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/#post-12184407)
 * Thanks! I just found out this reading a bit more careful in the translation instructions
   🙂
    I managed to get the .mo file in correct place and now it is working!
 * Thanks for quick response.
 *  Plugin Support [Fernando a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhaps/)
 * (@fhaps)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/#post-12186948)
 * Thank you for confirming that this has been solved. I’m marking this thread as`
   Resolved` now.

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 * Last reply from: [Fernando a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhaps/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-language-12/#post-12186948)
 * Status: resolved