I clicked on "Send Test" digest button. I got the digest by email. However at the end of the email I saw these characters. Does this mean the aliens have taken over YAF?

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Not sure if this helps you or not. Maybe check your profile and see if there is a 'default' language set on your account and try a test digest or something --

I saw the default language is set as English (US). There is no option called "default" in drop down menu.

PS: I did try the test digest - per the steps above. That is how I noticed the weird characters. Maybe its a secret message 🙂

You seem to know about the alien protocols. How tight is your tinfoil hat? :-d

I've gotten the same cryptic messages from one of the YAF forums I admin - just every once in a while. Have seen a couple other reports about it as well in the past. Only reason I mention the language files is when I had a problem updating an old 1.9.1.8 board, it was all 'north american' users, and almost 90% in the db had one field set to value of china.xml in one of the user table fields - I never thought much of it - and haven't looked at a newer db to see if that behavior even exists anymore, etc... More of just a random thought --

I just scanned one of my dbs and found probably about 200 users who had a language 'set' in that field. The rest of my some 2000 users had no entry. I will do some counting SQL next time I'm logged into that server and see what it comes up with --

I don't know if any of this relates to the digest language - but more relates to any 'notification' message sent. My real question (and I'll know the answer with some testing at some point) if this is what causes strange message output...

1: Digest send 'ordered'

2: user profile checked for "language culture" - if not found then

3: board settings checked for "default language culture" -- if not found then:

4: ?? random or first inline language selected from filetree maybe?

What YAF does when it can't find a language selected in either place is the real question -- if it defaults, what does it default to --?

I don't think this can happen the board settings always exist because the default values are hard coded, and if i remember correctly the default fallback language when loading the language resources is also hardcoded to English.xml.

Thanks tha_watcha for looking into that for us!