Moodle in English

Thank you for the feedback Ryan. My site policies are to let users decide what to change their passwords to. For authentication it is set to external database adn that is fine except the automatic password generation.

I looked at all of the pages you suggested and the moodlelib.php has a line that might fix the problem but I would like to get rid of the special characters too. Here is what I think is the relevant part I think on the first line I can change maxlen to 3 and it will make it far easier as long as the next moodle update does not overwrite my changes.:

function generate_password($maxlen=10) {

    global $CFG;

    if (empty($CFG->passwordpolicy)) {

        $fillers = PASSWORD_DIGITS;

        $wordlist = file($CFG->wordlist);

        $word1 = trim($wordlist[rand(0, count($wordlist) - 1)]);

        $word2 = trim($wordlist[rand(0, count($wordlist) - 1)]);

        $filler1 = $fillers[rand(0, strlen($fillers) - 1)];

        $password = $word1 . $filler1 . $word2;

    } else {

        $minlen = !empty($CFG->minpasswordlength) ? $CFG->minpasswordlength : 0;

        $digits = $CFG->minpassworddigits;

        $lower = $CFG->minpasswordlower;

        $upper = $CFG->minpasswordupper;

        $nonalphanum = $CFG->minpasswordnonalphanum;

        $total = $lower + $upper + $digits + $nonalphanum;

        // Var minlength should be the greater one of the two ( $minlen and $total ).

        $minlen = $minlen < $total ? $total : $minlen;

        // Var maxlen can never be smaller than minlen.

        $maxlen = $minlen > $maxlen ? $minlen : $maxlen;

        $additional = $maxlen - $total;

        // Make sure we have enough characters to fulfill

        // complexity requirements.

        $passworddigits = PASSWORD_DIGITS;

        while ($digits > strlen($passworddigits)) {

            $passworddigits .= PASSWORD_DIGITS;

        }

        $passwordlower = PASSWORD_LOWER;

        while ($lower > strlen($passwordlower)) {

            $passwordlower .= PASSWORD_LOWER;

        }

        $passwordupper = PASSWORD_UPPER;

        while ($upper > strlen($passwordupper)) {

            $passwordupper .= PASSWORD_UPPER;

        }

        $passwordnonalphanum = PASSWORD_NONALPHANUM;

        while ($nonalphanum > strlen($passwordnonalphanum)) {

            $passwordnonalphanum .= PASSWORD_NONALPHANUM;

        }

        // Now mix and shuffle it all.

        $password = str_shuffle (substr(str_shuffle ($passwordlower), 0, $lower) .

                                 substr(str_shuffle ($passwordupper), 0, $upper) .

                                 substr(str_shuffle ($passworddigits), 0, $digits) .

                                 substr(str_shuffle ($passwordnonalphanum), 0 , $nonalphanum) .

                                 substr(str_shuffle ($passwordlower .

                                                     $passwordupper .

                                                     $passworddigits .

                                                     $passwordnonalphanum), 0 , $additional));

    }

    return substr ($password, 0, $maxlen);

}