I18n bug with Norwegian language

#1

I’m building multilingual website and one of the languages is Norwegian. Norwegian two letter ISO country code is NO and for some reason whenever there is a key “no” in no.yml locale file I get following error:

/Users/golusin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/i18n-0.6.9/lib/i18n/backend/simple.rb:32:in `store_translations': undefined method `to_sym' for false:FalseClass (NoMethodError)

This is only happening for Norwegian language with no as starting key value… If I use nor instead of no, everything is fine. Also, if there is a key “no” in any other locale files, I’m getting translate missing output.

Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?

Thanks in advance.

#2

This happens because “no” is a reserved word in YAML, as it can stand in for boolean false. This blog post does a nice job of describing the issue and offering some work arounds.