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Hani Abdulfattah
Hani Abdulfattah

Reputation: 31

Laravel localization does not support Arabic

I'm using Laravel 6 and trying to make a dual-language page but I faced a serious problem when dealing with Arabic script.

I installed mcamara package then created test.blade.php page for testing purposes which has the following code regardless of bootstrap and styling stuff:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="utf-8"/>
        <body>
            <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light">
            @foreach(LaravelLocalization::getSupportedLocales() as $localeCode => $properties)
            <a class="navbar-brand" href="{{ LaravelLocalization::getLocalizedURL($localeCode, null, [], true) }}">{{ $properties['native'] }}</a>
            @endforeach
            </nav>

        <h1>{{ __('messages.test') }}</h1>
        <h1>اختبار</h1>
    </body>
</html>

And these are my lang files named 'messages' in Arabic:

'test'=>'اختبار',

And in English:

 'test'=>'test',

Now the first h1 tag contains the word that must be translated according to language switching, but instead of getting an understandable word I get these strange characters اختبار, and when I wrote the Arabic 'اختبار' word -which means 'test'- as a string it showed up very well.

Here is my input: enter image description here

I'm using VS code and all my pages has UTF-8 encoding. I also tried to put this code: Blade::setEchoFormat('e(utf8_encode(%s))'); in Boot class in AppServiceProvider.php but it does not work.

I hope I can find help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2130

Answers (2)

erdemkose
erdemkose

Reputation: 81

It appears to be that your file is not correctly saved in UTF-8. You can see it yourself here. Paste the text you see on the page (اختبار) into UTF-8 text (Example: a 中 Я) text box then you will see that it is actually اختبار in Unicode.

To solve the problem, you need make sure that your files are saved in UTF-8.

UTF-8 to Unicode conversion

Upvotes: 1

rachids
rachids

Reputation: 360

Salam @Hani, it looks like an encoding problem.

I tried to reproduce your case in my local computer, I copy paste your code and everything works as expected.

Check to see if your files messages.php in resources/lang are in a correct encoding format. If they are, check the blade file.

You can also try to make a test route that only returns the translated string like so :

Route::get("test", function(){
    return __("messages.test");
});

Upvotes: 1

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