Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Oscar Yanez -
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Hi everyone,
I just updated to Moodle 1.8 (from 1.6) and now I am having trouble setting the site-wide default language (which I need in spanish, es_utf8). The option appears in the dropbox within the "language settings" admin page, I can activate the language from the homepage dropbox also, but the next time I visit the moodle server, language is still english. What is it that I am missing? Thanks for any help on this.... Ah! and one more question to you all: where do I change the default word for "Teacher"? I can't find the box anywhere!
Oscar
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Re: Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Tomislav Raseta -
Hi,
I am also having trouble with the same issue. I've upgraded from Moodle 1.5 (first upgraded to 1.6 and did unicode migration, then 1.7, then latest 1.8).
When I visit front page with Firefox, language is English, including the login screen, and when I visit front page with IE, language is correct (in my case Croatian), including the login screen. The default language is set to Croatian.
Tomy

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Re: Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Petr Skoda -
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Hi,

the site language is now overridden by browser setting. Please check your browser settings and select preferred language there.
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Re: Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Oscar Yanez -
Thanks for the tip Petr, this works perfectly.
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Re: Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Martin Samuelsson -
As Petr says, the language shown when not logged in is overridden by the browser, if there is a list of preferred languages in it.

The reasoning behind this is that if your site can respond in several languages, it should respond in a language the visitor understands and prefers.

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Re: Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Tomislav Raseta -
Thanks for the tip, after correctly setting up Firefox it worked perfectly!

Actually, I don't want my site to be multilingual - is there any way to force only one language?
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Re: Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Petr Skoda -
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I just committed a fix into cvs 1.8+ and HEAD, the detection now respects the $CFG->langlist settings MDL-9559.

You can for example specify cs_utf8,de_utf8 if you wish only these two languages available/detected; you can specify only one language too wink

I am working on some more fixes related to langlist now.
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Re: Default Language and related issues in Moodle 1.8

by Pedro salazar -
where is this in Firefox configuration??