I'm experimenting on Symfony 2 Translation Component. My default locale is el_GR and my alternate locale is en_US. I 've set up my config.yml, I've created 2 translation files: messages.el_GR.yml and messages.en_US.yml and then cleared app/cache. I have translated the word Symfony in both locales. So when I use the command php app/console translation:debug en_US abcNikBundle I get:
State | Id | Message Preview (en_US) | Fallback Message Preview (el_GR)
| Symfony | Symfony_US | Symfony_GR
So in a twig template I write
{{ 'Symfony'|trans({},'messages') }}
It works fine when I use the en_US locale, (it prints Symfony_US) but When I use my default locale (el_GR), it prints Symfony instead of Symfony_GR. Can it be done somehow?
Make sure your cache is completely deleted. You probably reset the cache after adding the English translation but not your fallback. See the Symfony documentation for more info:
Each time you create a new translation resource (or install a bundle that includes a translation resource), be sure to clear your cache so that Symfony can discover the new translation resources:
Sometimes just running the cache:clear command fails for me in which case I just manually delete the contents of the app/cache directory.
Also, if a translation cannot be found it is logged in debug mode in the translation channel (dev.translation.log) - check your logs to see if it couldn't find the translation. Also, you don't have to specify 'messages' since that's the default, you can just do {{ 'Symfony'|trans }}