I am opening this new topic, further to the discussion: Glossary navigation bar/index language issue
I have managed to make available to the Glossary module a new feature to Browse the glossary by more than one alphabet. Before proposing a patch to the Moodle Tracker I need to have this hack tested by as many glossary users as possible in as many languages as possible (especially non-Roman alphabets).
Please go to my moodle test site (currently running moodle 1.9) http://rezeau.info/moodle and log in as teacher1, password Teacher1!
Go to course "Demo" and in Topic 0 (Documentation) click on Multilingual Glossary.
By default I have set it to display indexes in Greek, Hebrew and Russian (and English). I have entered a few words in those languages, but you are welcome to enter more words, of course.
You can Update the glossary to see for yourself how a teacher can select the various alphabets to be displayed, from the list of languages currently available on that moodle test site. If you need more languages to be added to the site, please let me know.
You can also change your user language on the site's front page, and experiment with how the Glossary index is displayed then.
Please post any remarks, bug reports, queries, etc. in this forum discussion.
Joseph
PS.- I have no idea if arabic, japanese, chinese, etc. use that alphabet index for browsing the glossary. Please let me know!