translated .mo files are ignored (Laravel 5.7)

[lrotermund]

Cheers, I've changed my translation from nativ Laravel to this package, because it looks much easier for my translation team to work with po/mo instead of php and json.

The .po generation and the Poedit "Actualizar" are working like a charm.

The Problem: My translation team (greek -> el_GR) filled the .po files with the translations and gave them back to me. I changed the saved .po and .mo files in my resources folder and restarted the webserver. But when I change the active local with your controller example (works!) I can only see the default fallback local german (de_DE). The .mo files are ignored. I tried around a couple days but nothing works. If I run LaravelGettext::getLocale(); at a breakpoint on my compiled view it returns the correct locale but the _i('foobar') isn't correct. My folder structur is the generated from the beginning:

DE ../resources/lang/i18n/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po ../resources/lang/i18n/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo GR ../resources/lang/i18n/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po ../resources/lang/i18n/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo EN ../resources/lang/i18n/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po ../resources/lang/i18n/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo

Project environment: Laravel: 5.7 Virtual Box Package: laravel/homestead 8.0 Installed locales (+utf8 generation): de_DE, el_GR, en_US Active Webserver: Nginx I use LaravelGettext and not php-gettext

Configuration:

/**
 * Translation handlers, options are:
 *
 * - symfony: (recommended) uses the symfony translations component. Incompatible with php-gettext
 * you must uninstall the php-gettext module before use this handler.
 *
 * - gettext: requires the php-gettext module installed. This handler has well-known cache issues
 */
'handler' => 'symfony',

/**
 * Session identifier: Key under which the current locale will be stored.
 */
'session-identifier' => 'laravel-gettext-locale',
/**
 * Default locale: this will be the default for your application.
 * Is to be supposed that all strings are written in this language.
 */
'locale' => 'de_DE',

/**
 * Supported locales: An array containing all allowed languages
 */
'supported-locales' => [
    'de_DE',
    'el_GR',
    'en_US',
],

/**
 * Default charset encoding.
 */
'encoding' => 'UTF-8',

Is there something I can check? Did I forgot something? If you have any questions, or if you would like further information or code, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks for checking my issue!

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Update I've debugged the loading of the catalogues. The german changes in the .mo file are changed. The el_GR messages are empty:

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Update - Solution The solution was to build a middleware and to call loadLocaleFile after setting the active locale.

Now i'm using:

LaravelGettext::getTranslator()->setLocale($locale);

instead of:

LaravelGettext::setLocale($locale);

Thanks @stfr from issue #26.