Translation of Gutenberg Plugin missing when using Bedrock

[Furo42]

Most of the translations in the backend of the block editor are missing when using Bedrock Boilerplate together with Gutenberg Plugin.
The translations were installed correctly.

A similiar problem was described in this topic and marked as fixed.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45528
Also this Bug happens only when using the separate Gutenberg Plugin. There is no problem when using the block editor in Wordpress 5.2.1.
This bug also appears only in Bedrock. If I define a custom wp-content in a standard WordPress installation the translations were shown correctly.
If I deactivate the part where wp-content custom directory is defined in Bedrock (in the applications.php) the translations are also there.

The Gutenberg Plugin is nearly fully translated in German. So the translations should show up. The best indicator is the string "Status and Visbility" at the right sidebar which should be "Status und Sichtbarkeit" in German.

To reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install WordPress with Bedrock
2. Use a different language than English
3. Install Gutenberg Plugin with Composer or within the WP-Admin and activate it
4. Install the Translations
5. Create a new Post
6. The Blocks and the Boxes on the right Sidebar are shown in English

Desktop:
OS: Windows
Browser Chrome 74, Firefox 67

Tested with:

• Wordpress 5.2.1
• Gutenberg Version 5.7.0 and 5.8.0
• Bedrock 1.12.6

[roots-ladybug]

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[retlehs]

https://roots.io/bedrock/docs/bedrock-compatibility/

[retlehs]

closing because WordPress/gutenberg#15889 already exists and there shouldn't be anything in bedrock that could possibly cause this

[Furo42]

Short comment to this issue: I updated bedrock to the latest version and now the translations are available. I used Bedrock v1.12.8 formlery.

[strarsis]

So I updated to latest Bedrock (1.12.8), also updated to latest Gutenberg plugin (6.4.0) and WordPress (5.2.3). But the translations in Gutenberg editor are still missing.

@Furo42: Are you using Bedrock directly from master or 1.12.8 release tag,
because you wrote that you formerly used v.12.8, but this is currently already the latest release?

[strarsis]

@Furo42: Just tried bedrock from dev-master. Still no translations for Gutenberg editor.

[Furo42]

@strarsis I'm using the latest Bedrock release (1.12.8), not the dev-master. Sorry, there was a typo in my last comment. I used v1.7.3 formlery.

I know it's a dumb question but did you also installed the translations for Gutenberg through the dashboard?

[strarsis]

@Furo42: That's a very good question. I installed the available translations from the update page,
but no Gutenberg translations were offered to be installed from the Dashboard.
In languages/plugins is a mo and po file (gutenberg-[...]) for Gutenberg plugin.
But doesn't the editor on front end use json files for translation?
Can you find a reference or inclusion of translation json in the Gutenberg editor page HTML source?

[strarsis]

@Furo42: Found a JSON file with Gutenberg translations in ./web/app/languages/de_DE_formal-8860e58c20c6a2ab5876a0f07be43bd9.json. But it isn't included in the Gutenberg editor page HTML.

So Gutenberg plugin checks for a json file with path /srv/www/web/app/languages/plugins/gutenberg-de_DE_formal-8fd23a16a58651c776b5787bf7e6be36.json, but this file doesn't exist.
Instead, there are the files
./app/languages/de_DE-8860e58c20c6a2ab5876a0f07be43bd9.json; ./app/languages/de_DE_formal-8860e58c20c6a2ab5876a0f07be43bd9.json
which contain Gutenberg editor translations. But none of them start with gutenberg-de_DE_formal- or have the hash 8fd23a16a58651c776b5787bf7e6be36.

So the language file downloader is either not working or incorrectly working,
there was no prompt in Dashboard for downloading the Gutenberg language files either.

Edit: So I just deleted all language files and let re-download them:
All the json files got no domain prefix at all, just the locale, - and hash,
and they are not inside plugins/ as they should as plugin language files,
but directly above in languages/.

Edit: So those language json files are from Glotpress (official WordPress translation site).
The Gutenberg plugin tries to find the json file with gutenberg- prefix,
but all the json files downloaded by updater have no prefix at all.

[Furo42]

@strarsis That's strange. I installed Gutenberg and downloaded the language files through the dashboard. The json files are called e.g. gutenberg-de_DE-2db29b02b406fc710377e5966a268a5b.json and their location is at web/app/languages/plugins.
If I remove the json files from Gutenberg the most strings will be not translated.

Does this problem only happens with Gutenberg? Did you try to install another plugin with translations?
Do you have any modifications in your Bedrock config?
That's how I solved this problem: I set up a blank Bedrock project and saw that it worked fine.

[strarsis]

@Furo42: The other json files are missing a prefix, too.
Yes, I should set up a blank Bedrock project and install Gutenberg and its translation there.