[Xerte] Re: language

Elly Langewis e.a.langewis at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 14:51:13 GMT 2016


Hi all,

It could well be that I have set the language to NL after creating the
MC-question.
I just created a new question and there the last sentence in English does
not appear, so that is fine.

Thank you all!

Elly

Elly Langewis, CPIO
*eLearning, eLectures & eAssessment*
Department of Biology
Utrecht University

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Ah, OK. cheers!
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> Elly let us know if that doesn’t work
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Fay Cross
> *Sent:* 13 January 2016 11:40
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> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: language
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> If Elly creates the page again like Inge suggests then the strings should
> all be in Dutch (and appear in the editor’s language options so they can be
> edited anyway if needed)
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 13 January 2016 11:38
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: language
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> What needs to happen in Elly’s case then Fay?
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Fay Cross
> *Sent:* 13 January 2016 11:37
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: language
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> They’re not completely hard coded. It looks for the strings in the xwd but
> if it doesn’t find them then uses strings hard coded in the page model as a
> fall back. I guess this project must have been made before those language
> strings were in the xwd but I’m not sure of the best way to do this to
> avoid ever having fall backs in the model files.
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> There are probably quite a lot of pages with similar issues as if new
> features have been added then there are often strings associated with them.
> If you then add the new feature to an older page then it will always use
> the hard coded string. The only way around this I can think of is that
> where people notice this is a problem they need to create the page from
> scratch again.
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 13 January 2016 11:26
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: language
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> The feedback strings are hardcoded in the mcq.html file: must have missed
> those:
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> Two options: either use the Language Options checkbox and change the
> values, but you’ll have to do it each time; or if you have access to the
> server change mcq.html lines 108 – 123 to the strings you want.
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> I’ll log it as a bug and we’ll fix it at some point,
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> Thanks,
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Elly Langewis
> *Sent:* 13 January 2016 11:15
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] language
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> Hi all,
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> Is it true that no matter what the language is set on the learning object
> level, feedback to MC questions will always end with an English sentence,
> like "Your answer was incorrect."?
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> Even in the example in Dutch which was given by Inge Donkervoort this is
> the case (see attachment).
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> I hope this is not true...
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> Elly
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> Elly Langewis, CPIO
>
> *eLearning, eLectures & eAssessment*
> Department of Biology
> Utrecht University
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