Joseph Rézeau

Euh, c'est quoi "un quiz avec un branchement" ?

Joseph

Hi Stephen,

I'm afraid we still have a communication problem.

You posted this to the Lesson module, but in your posts you mention the REGEXP plugin, which, as I tried to explain in my previous post, is meant to be used for the Quiz module's question bank, and has nothing to do whatsoever with the Lesson module.

Please answer this question. Do you want to use:

a) in the Lesson module, the regular expression option of the shortanswer question or...

b) in the Quiz module, the REGEXP plugin to create your own REGEXP questions to be used in a Quiz?

Joseph

Hi stephen,

Wrong forum (again !).

1.- The regexp question plugin is meant to be used to create questions in the quiz questions databank, not for the Lesson module.  You should have posted your question to the Quiz module forum. However, for faster support you may email me directly (to my email address in my moodle profile).

2.- A complete documentation is available for the REGEXP question type. I'm surprised that you would find the "standard documentation" inadequate.

3.- Be aware that there is also a "regular expression" option for the shortanswer question type in the Lesson module, but that is in the Moodle core itself, not a 3rd-party plugin like the REGEXP question type. Maybe that is the reason for your confusion.

Joseph (author of the REGEXP question type)

Jonathan:

to prevent this problem from reocurring, can't there be a line of code in the setup that checks for utf8?  If It's not utf8, the install fails, no matter what.

Well, that feature is provided by the moodle 2.0 install script. If you try to install moodle 2.0 with a database whose collation is not set to utf8 (e.g. latin1_swedish_ci, etc.), then the install script does stop with the following warnings:

Moodle 2.0.2+ (Build: 20110413)
Server checks
Name     Information     Report     Status
unicode         must be installed and enabled
It is required that you store all your data in Unicode format (UTF-8). New installations must be performed into databases that have their default character set as Unicode. If you are upgrading, you should perform the UTF-8 migration process (see the Admin page).
[...]
You must solve all the environmental problems (errors) found above before proceeding to install this Moodle version!

And you cannot proceed with the installation. Just like you requested.

The problem in your case seems to be that you did not install moodle yourself but you rely on the "simplescripts" organisation (of whom I do not know). Again, you should take your problem to them, not to moodle.org, and ask them a) why they set your moodle database to latin1_swedish_ci rather than to uf8_general_ci and b) how they could have "installed" a moodle 2.0 version with that database collation, since it is not possible to do so.

Hope that helps.

Joseph

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"... is there a simple way to switch it all to utf8? Seems like this is a problem from simplescripts..."

There might be a way, but I am no specialist of databases. Please submit the problem to the "simplescripts" people. They should be able to help.

I'm glad the problem has been diagnosed at last and you know how to cure it. Many thanks to Yvette Martinez for putting us on the right track.

Joseph