Difference between revisions of "Translating OPL Problems"

Revision as of 11:16, 9 April 2014

For tranlating WeBWorK OPL problems, please adhere to the following conventions:

The language tag will use ISO 639.1.
Problem files should just have one language rather than if/then's to code them up.
We recommend that problems which are translations of each other be in the same directory with the same name, but with the 639.1 label at the end, as in sr3-2.es.pg and sr3-2.fr.pg.
But, if you translate an existing problem, do not change the existing file name to sr3-2.en.pg since that would break existing paths.
It is possible down the line that we may use the file name as a way of picking up languages, but we don't want to rush to that, so use a language tag, e.g. Language("fr")
Problems without a language tag will be assumed to be English, but authors new of English language problems are encouraged to use the Language("en") tag.

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 * We recommend that problems which are translations of each other be in the same directory with the same name, but with the 639.1 label at the end, as in sr3-2.es.pg and sr3-2.fr.pg.
 * But, if you translate an existing problem, do not change the existing file name to sr3-2.en.pg since that would break existing paths.
-* It is possible down the line that we may use the file name as a way of picking up languages, but we don't want to rush to that, so use a language tag, e.g. Language("en")
+* It is possible down the line that we may use the file name as a way of picking up languages, but we don't want to rush to that, so use a language tag, e.g. Language("fr")
-* Problems without a language tag will be assumed to be English, but authors new of English language problems are encouraged to use the Language("") tag.
+* Problems without a language tag will be assumed to be English, but authors new of English language problems are encouraged to use the Language("en") tag.
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