Hello all.

I am setting up a new Elgg site with 1.7.4. I'm slowly importing and testing the plugins, themes, and other piece-parts I had assembled for an earlier version of 1.7. The new site is almost ready except for the settings page, which is showing a HUGE string of unreadable characters between the words "Your language" (associated with 'user:language:label' in en.php) and the dropdown menu showing English, the only language 100% available on the site. (Spanish is also an option, and the drop-down menu indicates that it is 2.66% complete.) Here's a sample:

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Outside of en.php, 'user:language:label' appears only in views/default/user/settings/language.php. I have tried uploading a copy of that file from the old site to the new one, and I've also tried replacing that file on the new site with a copy from a fresh Elgg package. No luck.

Here are some screenshots. The first shows where the problem starts on the settings page for any user account. The second image shows the end of the string.

Any ideas about how to fix this? If it can't be fixed, can it be safely brushed under the rug, since users won't be needing to select from among several languages anyway?

Please err on the side of overexplanation, if you can stand to.