Marco Steinhäuser

Daily, there are more and more new online stores using OXID eShop. Some of these shops are supposed to be available in just one language (e.g. German), nevertheless they tend to forget to disable English, which is enabled as an additional language in OXID eShop by default.

This issue rears its ugly head if for example a browser’s standard language has been configured in English and the shop is supposed to be available in German only and the administrator forgot to disable English. Then, visitors will see a English version of the shop that looks rather strange. All looks good in a browser with German as the language identifier. Then OXID eShop will show the nicely crafted German content as intended.

Above screenshot shows the English version of a supposedly unilingual German eCommerce site. Looks creepy, doesn’t it?

Hence, if you don’t need a language, please

• deactivate it (see below screenshot) and
• clear the cache (/tmp/ folder)

Hope this helps to avoid creepy zombie multi-language sites

musicgate, another forum mate, had an awesome idea collecting all OXID shops running opening up an appropriate group at the social bookmark platform http://www.mister-wong.de. This idea went on like giving discounts and / or coupons to all of you brothers in arms. For a first, just let’s collect. Feel free to register yourself and to present your OXID shop in this group!

Unfortunately, Mister Wong doesn’t speak “Globish”, everything you will find on the .de site would be in German. If you are not a German native speaker you might don’t understand the handling there. In this case you are welcome to open up another – your – OXID eShop – group at the .com site of Mister Wong.