In the strange world of bits 'n bites we encountered a weird Sharepoint problem. On our WSS server, which contains over a hundred WSS sites in about 30 virtual servers, languages are mixed in the site settings. Is it a bug? Is it a feature?
4 Language packs are installed, so our customers can choose from English, Dutch, German and French team sites to create. After a while it looks like Sharepoint gets confused and displayes English words through other languages.
When searching for a solution, I ran into Mads Nissen's weblog, in which the same problem is described. He said Microsoft is working on it, but are unable to reproduce the problem yet.
So, what to do..?
There are some things we could do to (temporary) solve this problem. First is to recycle the application pool. Somehow, the problem disappears temporary, but returns after a period of time. Second, increase the number of worker processes for the application pool. Same results here, but not permanent solution. Another solution could be to give each virtual server its own application pool. This way the number of sites each application pool has, are decreased and the problem will occur less often and doesn't affect all virtual servers.
Maybe the last option is best for now. I'll keep you updated about this problem!
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From Mads blog:
Microsoft has located the Language bug in Sharepoint
I just received news that Microsoft has located the bug that caused local language to turn into english randomly. They're working on a fix related to the .NET framework 1.1 which is expected to resolve the bug, but have no release date for it yet.
http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/archive/2004/11/18/264648.aspx
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The fix!