Hello, I'm using Moodle 3.9 and just noticed the "American English K12 (en_us_k12) " language pack. Has anyone used this? I've curious what is different about this than the English - United States (en_us). Is it possible to see what 'translations' have been made to this language pack that make it differ from en_us?
American English K12 (en_us_k12)
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You can download the en_us_k12 language pack from https://download.moodle.org/langpack/3.10 and look what's in it. Since it is a child language, it (should) only contains the changes to it's parent.
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Thanks Koen - I see on the Moodle page that there are 1326 customizations. I also downloaded the zip file. Would this mean that only the files located in the zip are the ones that contain the customized strings from the parent en_us?
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OK, peeked at a bunch of the files in the zip file -- most of the changes seem to be the use of the word "class" instead of "course", so I think I have a good sense of what's different. Thanks!
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the parent language is en
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the parent language is en
I noticed this as well. And it made me think - is that expected actually? Should not the parent language be set to en_us ?
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I'm realizing that the American K-12 language pack is still filled with the original English terminology such as marks and "enrol" -- I think it should be renamed as the "Classes K-12" language pack sine there are no actual other changes in it from the English US pack.
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Reading the Developer Docs (https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Translation_FAQ#Moodle_languages_with_several_available_language_packs) and I hope I'm not stepping on toes but to the line "The English US-K12 language pack is used in the K-12 (kindergargarten to grade 12) primary and secondary education in the USA, Canada, and other English speaking countries", I've added this note: "Note: This language pack is displayed as American English K12 (en_us_k12) in Moodle 3.9, but the parent language for this pack is UK English, with the primary change being that term "course" renamed as "class"
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Thanks John for highlighting this issue. I think David is right that the parent language should be set to en_us. I have contacted the language pack maintainer, Jason, about it.
I also think that the language pack should be named 'English (United States) K12' for consistency with the English (United States) language pack.
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Update: Thanks to David for confirming that a child language pack such as en_us can be set as a parent of another language pack. Thus, the en_us_k12 language pack now has en_us as parent.