I created a quiz in a course which was configured to run in Arabic. However, when I preview the quiz - the options are still written in English. Is there any way to solve this? Language for the sitewide is also in Arabic.
Hi Edmund,
Those options are set when you create the multiple choice question. You can set a question to show lowercase abc, uppercase ABC, numbers 123, lowercase roman numerals, uppercase roman numerals, or none. They are all hard coded in the multiple choice question renderer.php file in a switch case function, down around line 160.
In your case, probably the easiest thing to do would be switch to "none" for each of your questions. You might try to change at least one of those possible cases, or add a case, to use the Arabic alphabet, but that requires changing Moodle core code. That is not recommended. However, since I have multiple Moodle's set up for testing various things, I tried to do it with Arabic and Hebrew and could not get either one to work. I believe it's due to ord supposedly works only with ASCII and not UTF8.
Thanks Al for pointing out the file and line number to be modified. I have tried using none, but I might as well try modifying the source code and provide additional cases. Again, thank you.
The same issue is seen in Japanese, Hebrew and other languages that should have the A,B,C,D characters translated .
The 'answernumberingABCD | qtype_multichoice' strings have been translated in AMOS for many languages, but it seems that the qtype_multichoice plugin is not using these string variables as it should.
This issue is likely to need the expertise of Tim Hunt
You will find the following example on https://moodleformulas.org:
I svar til Dominique Bauer
Re: Arabic choices not written in Arabic language
Edmund Evangelista-mit -
Thanks for the information Dominique. I will surely try this. Cheers.
There is an option for what sort of numbering to use, including an option for no numbering. Edit the question and choose that. (The answernumberingABCD string in the language pack is the name of the option that is displayed in the editing form. Those values are not intended to be used when printing the question.)
Also, there is a setting for admins to control what type of numbering is used by default when a new multiple choice question is created.