How to delete a language?

[vitalik82]

Subj. RC2.2- 2

[Akyhne]

If you just want to disable a language tempoarily, it should be enough to delete the file ./Themes/default/languages/index.[yourLanguage].php.
If not, there's a unch of files to delete. The most easy would be to download a language pack, and then see what files it contains. Then delete those files from the server.

[agridoc]

In SMF Translation FAQ you can see the english language files and directories used for languages.

It'll look like this:

smf_1-1_english (or smf_1-1_english-utf8) |- Themes    |- babylon    |  |- images    |  |  |- english    |  |- languages    |- classic    |  |- images    |  |  |- english    |  |- languages    |- default       |- images       |  |- english       |- languages

--> Babylon buttons --> Babylon language files --> Classic buttons --> Classic language files --> Default buttons --> Default language files

All languages use the same structure. If we have added a language lang_to_del we will have the following structure. I have added in red the files and dirs that have to be deleted.

smf_1-1_english (or smf_1-1_english-utf8) |- Themes    |- babylon    |  |- images    |  |  |- lang_to_del    |  |- languages    |- classic    |  |- images    |  |  |- lang_to_del    |  |- languages    |- default       |- images       |  |- lang_to_del       |- languages

--> Babylon buttons          <- Delete this directory --> Babylon language files  <- Delete all *.lang_to_del.php files --> Classic buttons          <- Delete this directory --> Classic language files  <- Delete all *.lang_to_del.php files --> Default buttons          <- Delete this directory --> Default language files  <- Delete all *.lang_to_del.php files

If you have SHELL access, use the *.lang_to_del.php mask to delete quickly all lang_to_del language PHP files.

You can do the same, if you have an FTP software that can use filters.