All activity stream messages should use main site's language

[settle]

We use WP Multisite and BP and we allow users to choose their blog language in blog settings.

And everything what happens in their blogs gets synchronised with "wall" in default site (blogr.lt).

Default language in the main page is lithuanian, but few blogs still use english. When a new comment or new post appears in that blogs it gets synchronised with main page, but strings like "commented on the blog post" stay not translated.

I think that main page "wall" should always use its own language, although some blogs use different language.

I'm sure, it is difficult to understand me, so I will attach image. I hope it will help to understand.

[DJPaul]

This content in the activity stream is written once; that is, it is stored in the database by the site that generates the activity. Wherever it is read out, it is not re-generated. This is causing the display that you are seeing.

[settle]

No, I have just checked, it doesn't look like it is written once.

For example:
We have multisite called multisite.com, which uses lithuanian language.
And we have a blog someblog.multisite.com, which uses lithuanian language, too. If somebody writes a comment in my blog, a new message in main page activity stream appears and is written in lithuanian.

Now, I go to my blog settings and change my language into english, and write a new comment in some post. And I see an english message in the main page activity stream, not lithuanian as before.

As I said, it depends on currently set blog language.

And I still think that all activity stream messages should rely on main page language, not individual blogs in that multisite.

[settle]

And maybe you understood me incorrectly. I am not talking about regeneration of old activity messages. I am talking only about messages which are going to be posted in the future.

[DJPaul]

Changing the language for a site will cause it to load a different localisation file. The actual text in the activity stream therefore, as you say, depends on which site the "add this to activity stream" action is invoked and that site's language setting.

This is why you are finding differences in the activity stream. This is working as it should. Asking for all activity stream messages to use the main site's language is an enhancement request and not a defect.

[settle]

Ok, I agree, it is an enhancement.
I think you should create a possibility in BP settings to choose which language to use in the activity stream: either different blog's languages (currently) or main page's language (my suggestion).

[cnorris23]

This seems like an extreme edge case, plus there are enough filters/hooks that some sort of crafty solution could be had. I don't see any reason to over-complicate core with this. Suggest closing... again.

[DJPaul]

Closing as agreeing with cnorris23's comments above. There are filters in place if a plugin wants to change the text on the way in. It's an edge case for core.