Quiz

Hello Matt
(Thanks Howard)

I am using Moodle in ja_uft8.

The file you attach looks fine. But as Howard says, it will not display unless the course is displayed using ja_utf8 encoding.

I think that it should display fine if you set your language to english and then manually change the encoding of your browser to "Unicode (UFT-8)."

Your browser may remember that encoding for you, so that it will always view your course with a unicode encoding. At other times in my experience, however, it will keep requiring you to reset the encoding UFT-8 each time you view the page. I am not sure why this is!

However, there is a language pack called
en_ja.zip (858 bytes) 2004-03-23 martin@moodle.com info cvs

This containts almost nothing except instructions to display the pages using a the "EUC-JP"　Japanese encoding (till recently the encoding of preference for Japanese pages). Since the pack contains almost nothing all of the GUI strings default to their english variants, only the encoding changes. 

This is the contents...

<?PHP // $Id: moodle.php,v 1.265 2004/03/16 10:59:42 moodler Exp $
      // moodle.php - created with Moodle 1.2 development (2004013101)

$string['thischarset'] = 'euc-jp';
$string['thisdirection'] = 'ltr';
$string['thislanguage'] = 'English - EUC-JP';

?>

What you (and my non-Japanese speaking)　teachers need is a en_ja_uft8 language pack, which I am making now....done.... I　think that all it needs is the following:

<?PHP // $Id$
      // moodle.php - created with Moodle 1.6 development (2005060201)

$string['thischarset'] = 'UTF-8';
$string['thisdirection'] = 'ltr';
$string['thislanguage'] = 'English - UFT-8';

?> 

Yes. That works. My teachers will be pleased. Thanks for encouraging me to get around to this.

Please unzip attached, put it in your moodle/lang folder and turn off your "langcache" temporarily (or wait a few minutes) in admin settings, then select this en_jp_uft8 language.

Perhaps this might profitably be added to the list of language packs?

Tim
Timothy Takemoto (ne Williams)
PS Recently I remind myself of the Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory in "When Prophecy Fails," summarised here as "scholarship has tended to agree with Festinger's conclusion that adherents work hard in a post-failure moment"