You talk about Frontend? Can you give Details (Screenshot) where to look?

Can you please post a screenshot of where you are seeing this?

I can confirm that the language string is used in the xml but defined nowehere, and there seems also not to be another language string for that purpose:

F:\Users\Richard\Documents\GitHub\joomla-cms>findstr /s /c:"COM_USERS_LOGIN" *.*
components\com_users\models\forms\login.xml:    <fieldset name="credentials" label="COM_USERS_LOGIN_DEFAULT_LABEL">
components\com_users\models\forms\login.xml:                    label="COM_USERS_LOGIN_USERNAME_LABEL"
components\com_users\views\login\tmpl\default_login.php:                <img src="<?php echo $this->escape($this->params->get('login_image')); ?>" class="login-image" alt="<?php echo JText::_('COM_USERS_LOGIN_IMAGE_ALT'); ?>" />
components\com_users\views\login\tmpl\default_login.php:                                                        <?php echo JText::_('COM_USERS_LOGIN_REMEMBER_ME'); ?>
components\com_users\views\login\tmpl\default_login.php:                                <?php echo JText::_('COM_USERS_LOGIN_RESET'); ?>
components\com_users\views\login\tmpl\default_login.php:                                <?php echo JText::_('COM_USERS_LOGIN_REMIND'); ?>
components\com_users\views\login\tmpl\default_login.php:                                        <?php echo JText::_('COM_USERS_LOGIN_REGISTER'); ?>
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_users.ini:COM_USERS_LOGIN_IMAGE_ALT="Login image"
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_users.ini:COM_USERS_LOGIN_REGISTER="Don't have an account?"
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_users.ini:COM_USERS_LOGIN_REMEMBER_ME="Remember me"
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_users.ini:COM_USERS_LOGIN_REMIND="Forgot your username?"
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_users.ini:COM_USERS_LOGIN_RESET="Forgot your password?"
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_users.ini:COM_USERS_LOGIN_USERNAME_LABEL="Username"

F:\Users\Richard\Documents\GitHub\joomla-cms>findstr /s /c:"COM_USERS_LOGIN_DEFAULT_LABEL" *.*
components\com_users\models\forms\login.xml:    <fieldset name="credentials" label="COM_USERS_LOGIN_DEFAULT_LABEL">

F:\Users\Richard\Documents\GitHub\joomla-cms>

@richard67 that's nothing to do with the report though is it

@brianteeman Well it shows that beside the components\com_users\models\forms\login.xml, the core does not use this language string anywhere, so it could be a 3rd party extension using it in any php file. But the fact that the core uses it in the xml also shows that it should be defined in the language file.

@brianteeman yes of course it has !
I can make a screenshot but it will be in German. My additional comments show exactly where to look at.

@franz-wohlkoenig Sorry, I forgot to mention that I talk about 'frontend' .

@richard67 Thanks for your confirmation.

Thanks to you all.

Pull request is PR #21919 . Please text and review.

But the fact that the core uses it in the xml also shows that it should be defined in the language file.

Or it needs to be removed from the xml if it isnt used

@madmetz please post a screenshot because as far as i can tell the core of Joomla never uses that string

@brianteenman OK, here is a part of my login screen. I marked the filed with a yellow circle.

The word "Benutzeranmeldung" (English: 'User Login') comes from this string / placeholder.

@madmetz can you test using a Core-Template (Protostar)? And where to see "Field caption is placeholder "COM_USERS_LOGIN_DEFAULT_LABEL"?

The core layout doesn't render this fieldset's label. The template on this website is. You're not going to reproduce this with core.

@mbabker So what do you recommend? Replace the language constant in the components\com_users\models\forms\login.xml file by a hard-coded string "User Login"?

No. Your PR is just fine.

Set to "closed" on behalf of @franz-wohlkoenig by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/21917

closed as having Pull Request #21919