Preferred languages?

[Pierre Mailhot]

I noticed today that a user could choose his preferred language on www.edx.org.

Will that feature be made available for Open edX? Or is it and I simply don't know how to turn it on?

Being from Montreal, having the possibility to choose English or French would be very useful for our users.

[Nate Aune]

You might find more help by asking this question in the openedx-translation list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openedx-translation

[Ali Hasan]

The feature is on openedx for a while now, all what you have to do is to config the languages on the admin panel

YourAwesomeDomain.com/admin/dark_lang/darklangconfig/

Enjoy

[Pierre Mailhot]

I didn't know that! Works great too.

Thank you very much Ali.

[Ned Batchelder]

The darklang feature is for testing languages that are not ready to be live yet.  Here are the directions for how to configure your server to support other languages: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/Internationalization-and-localization

--Ned.

[Pierre Mailhot]

But will it support concurrent languages? Can LANGUAGE_CODE support multiple values? It works when I use either Fr or En, but not when I use a list...

[Sarina Canelake]

Yes - you have to add additional languages how Ali suggested:

YourAwesomeDomain.com/admin/dark_lang/darklangconfig/

The LANGUAGE_CODE variable is for your server's default language. And then to "release" a language, you have to turn them on in the dark lang config on the admin panel - do that by going to the admin url above, then adding language codes for all additional languages you wish to release in a comma separated list. For example, to release French and Chinese (China), you'd add

 fr, zh-cn

You don't need to add the language code for your server's default language, but it's no problem if you do.

Confusing, I know. The benefit of this is that you can preview languages before you release them by appending

?lang-code=xx

to the end of any url, and ?clear-lang to undo it. Example:

127.0.0.1:8000/dashboard?preview-lang=ar      # Shows your site in Arabic (if Arabic is unreleased in your instance)

127.0.0.1:8000/dashboard?clear-lang                # Resets your session

[Pierre Mailhot]

Thanks Sarina, that's exactly what I ended up doing for supporting French and English.

[Sarina Canelake]

Great, glad I could help! I updated the language instructions to reflect what was summarized in this thread; if you'd take a look and edit the instructions if I left anything out, that'd be great!

[Pierre Mailhot]

Took a look at the new language instructions a few minutes. Looks good to me. Thank you.