error while installing arabic language pack in moodle website

Question

i need to install and run the arabic language , i try to run the website after i installing the pack , and the arabic language option is shown , but when i am choosing the arabic language the website is ben stuck and not open , and after 5 minute , the website run again in english language , and if i trying to choose arabic again , the same thing happened

Answer 1

You probably need to install the locale on the web server, this is separate from Moodle. The locale is used for dates.

The Moodle Arabic language pack uses the locale ar_SA.utf8 - you can find this in [yourmooodledatafolder]/lang/ar/langconfig.php

The install depends on the server

eg: for Ubuntu use something like this

sudo locale-gen ar_SA
sudo locale-gen ar_SA.UTF-8
sudo update-locale

Then use this to check the locale is installed

locale -a

Or you could use this to install all locales

sudo apt install locales-all
sudo locale-gen

See https://docs.moodle.org/403/en/Table_of_locales