CKEditor interface language does not use $user->language variable

CKEditor library not using user defined language in Drupal, but auto-detect user browser language and use it - so if u try to check this in browser with english language u will get this language in the editor, if u have browser with german language u also will have CKEditor translated to german language...

We never get feature request issue to do something like this, but i don't know does it needed here in this case?
Maybe other people say what they think about feature like this...

Greetings

Hi,
I can see that it also happens on Drupal 6.
The CKEditor only gives you two options to deal with localization:
Force a language, that you can choose, or auto-detect the browser
language.
I've added one more option, to get the Drupal language.
Patch is attached.

@caiosba, thanks for the patch!!! It worked smoothly.

[EDITED]
Sorry, I forgot this important information:
CKEditor 6.x-1.x-dev (2012-Jan-05)
CKEditor (library) 3.6.2

The patch worked for the last version as well...(ckeditor 6.x-1.9 - SA-CONTRIB-2012-040 - CKEditor and FCKeditor - multiple XSS, arbitrary code execution)

@soulfroys thank you for review.

The same problem arises with CKEditor installed via the WYSIWYG module - can anyone help me out ?

On a site with multilingual content, and hence authors contributing in a variety of languages, it is really very important that the editor interface reflects each authors preferred language.

Thanks,

(I'm new to Drupal by the way)

Please... Will this patch be committed?
[EDITED]
Need to be fixed in D7 first...

Re-rolled against the latest dev (2013-Jan-11).
Credits: @caiosba in #4).

Well, I tried making the porting but no success... :(

d7 port against 7.x-1.13, very lightly tested

I just tested your patch StephenN works great for me. Thanks.

Hi, everyone!
We have the same problem that ckeditor language detection is enabled but does not work. All plugin labels stay untranslated.
After research i've committed patch with two small changes.
The first one is in the ckeditor.lib.inc file. There is a check if auto-language detection is off, but the problem is that they do nothing in the other case. So, i added else statement that assigns the current site language from the global language variable.

The second change is in the media plugin.js file. We need this plugin label translated. So, our solution was to add Drupal.t function to media plugin label and to update .po file with the needed string. The last was necessary because this js file is executed dynamically and the string was not recorded to the database and then did not appear in the translation interface.

In our multilingual site, we needed to be able to set the CKEditor UI and contents languages independently. CKEditor has a contentsLang and contentsLangDirection setting. At /admin/config/content/ckeditor, edit your profile and in the "Advanced Options > Custom JavaScript configuration" add the lines:

config.contentsLanguage = document.getElementById(textarea_id).lang;
config.contentsLangDirection = document.getElementById(textarea_id).dir; 

As long as the textarea has the correct language and direction attributes set, CKEditor will now match.

FYI: Set your form element attributes with #attributes

The Patch in #15 worked for me with version 7.x-1.17.

Patch #17 is working for me on the latest version. I now have language-aware wysiwyg. Thanks!

However, it fails to apply to plugins/media/plugin.js. It seems to not affect the functionality of the patch though.

EDIT

Went with patch #15 instead. It still applies cleanly and offers a config option for language detection (browser language or Drupal language). Working perfectly. Thank you!

For me this works:

  if ($conf['auto_lang'] == "f") {
    $settings['language'] = $conf['lang'];
    //#1473010: [D7] Spell checker set to use interface language
    $settings['scayt_sLang'] = ckeditor_scayt_langcode($conf['lang']);
  }
  ### PATCH START ###
  else {
    $settings['language'] = $language->language;
  }
  ### PATCH END ###

file: ckeditor/includes/ckeditor.lib.inc

Applied patch #15 with minor update for MediaEmbed plugin.