I should go back to bed. I was right the first time. swish.cgi parses stdout 
from the swish-e program by default, and so it is getting the error from there. 
Look for:

         # return swish errors as a mesage to the script
         $self->errstr($1), return if /^err:\s*(.+)/;

and you could maybe do instead:

	
         # return swish errors as a mesage to the script
         if ( /^err:\s*(.+)/ ) {
          my $m = $1;
	 if ( $m eq 'no results' ) {
	    $m = "your german here";
          }
          $self->errstr($m);
          return;
         }



Helge Ohl - G16 Media GmbH scribbled on 9/15/05 5:57 AM:

> hm,
> 
> I found this one :
> 
> if ( ! $results->Hits ) {
>        $self->errstr('no results');
>        return;
>    }
> 
> But after my translation, the messag is still "no results" .
> 
> ...strange thing ...
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Karman" <peter@peknet.com>
> To: "Helge Ohl - G16 Media GmbH" <h.ohl@g16.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [SWISH-E] Swish.cgi Short Question
> 
> 
>> see the other mails I just sent. I was wrong; it's defined in swish.cgi.
>>
>> Helge Ohl - G16 Media GmbH scribbled on 9/15/05 5:50 AM:
>>
>>> hm,
>>>
>>> so I have to recompile swish ?!
>>>
>>> Sorry, but I'm not very familar with Unix and C ...
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Karman" <peter@peknet.com>
>>> To: <h.ohl@g16.net>
>>> Cc: "Multiple recipients of list" <swish-e@sunsite3.berkeley.edu>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:46 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [SWISH-E] Swish.cgi Short Question
>>>
>>>
>>>> that's defined in the C src, in swish.c.
>>>>
>>>> not a very friendly place if just trying to adjust the language of 
>>>> swish.cgi.
>>>>
>>>> Helge Ohl - G16 Media GmbH scribbled on 9/15/05 5:42 AM:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to translate the Swish.cgi messages and labels to 
>>>>> german. Now
>>>>> I got one problem, I didn't found the "no results" - TMPL_VAR MESSAGE.
>>>>>
>>>>> How could I change these words to my prefered ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thx for help,
>>>>>
>>>>> Helge Ohl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter(at)not-real.peknet.com
>>
> 

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