Maintaining 2 language packs

Maintaining 2 language packs

by Tim Allen -
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Hi moodlers,

Now that there are 2 Korean language packs - ko in EUC-KR encoding and ko_utf8 in UTF8 encoding - I am wondering whether it is better to add new translations to ko and then convert to UTF8 or vice versa.  What do other languages in a similar situation do?  Or perhaps it is trivial and doesn't matter?...thoughtful

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Tim.
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Re: Maintaining 2 language packs

by koen roggemans -
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Contact mits@mitstek.com from theJapanese translation for this. He has a lot of experience in maintaining both a UTF-8 and traditional encoded language pack
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Re: Maintaining 2 language packs

by Mitsuhiro Yoshida -
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OK, here is a modified lang.php for UTF8 encoding. mbstring is required.

1. Replace /moodle/admin/lang.php with this modified lang.php.
2. Change "ja_JP.utf8" on line372 to your language locale.

I don't have a help file converter, so I'm converting help files manually.wink

Don't forget to backup your current language files and original /moodle/admin/lang.php in case this script does not work correctly.

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Re: Maintaining 2 language packs

by koen roggemans -
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Since UTF-8 is becoming more and more important, your script could be interesting for some other languages who want to make a transfer to UTF-8.

Could this become a part of the main stream, developpers ?bedenking
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Re: Maintaining 2 language packs

by Tim Allen -
Hi Mitsuhiro,

Thanks a lot. smile Actually, you have sent me this script by private email previously. Unfortunately, I have never been able to get it to work. I have all the settings correct (I have multibyte support etc.) mixed

I add the hacked lang.php to mymoodlefolder/admin/ and then I go to the language interface and save a file, but I never get any ko_utf8 files or folders. sad  I have tried creating the ko_utf8 folder first but that doesn't change anything...

If you are sure that this does work, I wonder if you would be prepared to have a look at my server if I were to give you admin privileges and see if you could find out the problem?

Thanks in advance,
Tim.
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Re: Maintaining 2 language packs

by Mitsuhiro Yoshida -
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Please make sure that Moodle 1.5dev is working on your server.

This script is working on my Moodle 1.5dev.
"Japanese" and "Japanese UTF8" on http://moodle.org/download/lang/ are always same date. wink

I checked Moodle 1.5 with ko. And ko_utf8 files were created correctly.

OK ....

Please e-mail me your server's account info.
I would check your scripts and settings.

And if possible, please creat an admin account of your Moodle site for me.
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Re: Maintaining 2 language packs

by Tim Allen -
Yes my Moodle 1.5 is working OK.

Thanks a lot for offering to help, I have emailed you some info.

Tim. smile
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