Hi, I am experiencing a strange issue when editing .ini language files for Jomsocial. I download the files via FTP, edit the strings with TextEdit (Mac OS X) in plain text mode and upload them as .txt to the language folder. Then I change the original file's extension to .tmp .old or whatever and rename the edited version to .ini. After that Jomsocial uses the placeholder strings instead of language. I supposed it is a coding issue and tried several coding standards (UTF8, Western Latin etc.) but nothing works. This issue does not appear when I use the same workflow with Joomla core language files.

Hi there.

I'm not sure why you're experencing those problems, but for instance I'm using KED software to edit ini files, and I never encountered such issue. So I suggest to revert your language file to the original one, and then try using KED.