particular course. Even if you want your site in English only, you may well find the language editing facility useful for making changes to the standard text in Moodle.
Language Settings The language settings page includes the following options: Default language This sets the default language for the site. The setting can be overridden by users using the language menu, or the setting in their personal profile. If a preferred language is set in a user’s browser, then this will override the default site language.
Display language menu This sets whether the language menu is displayed on the login page and the front page. If it is turned off, the only places where a user can change the language setting are in her user profile or in the course settings if she is a teacher. Languages on the language menu If you want to limit the number of languages students and teachers can select from, enter a reduced list here. Site-wide locale Leave this setting empty, as it’s set through each language pack. Excel encoding Leave as default (Unicode) unless you have a particular reason for wanting Latin encoding.
Language Editing The language editing interface enables you to easily change any word or phrase used on the site. For example, you may want to change the word “Course” to “Area.” To change a word or phrase: 1. Click on Language in the Site Administration block, then “Language editing.” 2. Click the “Edit words or phrases” link in the middle of the page. 3. On the “Edit words or phases” page, as shown in Figure 16-6, click the “Switch lang directory” button. A local language folder, parentlanguage_local, will automatically be created in moodledata/lang. Files of edited strings will then be saved in this folder. This is necessary to prevent changes that you make from being overwritten by a newer language pack when updating.
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