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Language Handling

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1 General

Maintainer and Tester

 

Additional

The language service is used in all core components to display the labels of each page in the selected user language.

Roadmap of Language Service

Already Implemented

  • Accelerated language update (no more need to introduce background tasks)
  • Removed language installation in config (only English is installed by Setup)
  • Substituted LegacyUI Button by KS Button

Short Term

  • Fixing PHP 8.2 issues
  • Analysing use of language variables on test9
  • GitHook for preventing duplicate use of same variable_ID in language files

Mid Term

  • Move LegacyUI Table2GUI to KS Data Table
  • Remove unused language variables from language files
  • Improving export and import of customised language files
  • Improving online translation tool

Long Term

 

2 Projects

The following projects are planned or have been realised for this component:

NEW Projects

Ongoing Projects

  1. (Project) Gendered Terms in German Language File

Projects On-Hold

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Completed Projects

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3 Suggested Features

In the following list you can add a request for a new feature or pick-up an already suggested feature about that should be decided again. The lists below show existing suggestions and scheduled features of this component.

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Ready for jour Fixe

  1. Improving language coding scheme

Already suggested

  1. If string not exists in a lang file use english version of the string
  2. Keep language selection of user agreement for account setting
  3. Language Settings in User Content
  4. Language Update as Background Task
  5. Language-sensitive order of first and last name
  6. Localization for Date Format
  7. Multi-Lingual Taxonomies
  8. Multilingual Container Objects
  9. Multilingual Input Element
  10. Multilingual SCORM-Modules as one Object
  11. Multilingual Titles and Descriptions for All Object Types + Plugins
  12. Multilinguality Enhancements (Overview)
  13. Named Placeholder in Translations
  14. Offer Multilingualism for Course, Group and Category Links
  15. Offer Multilingualism for study programme link
  16. PO-Files for improving language handling
  17. Revision of Language Handling in Page Editor
  18. Revision of Language Maintenance
  19. Split Language Variables for Certificate Wildcard Descriptions

4 Accepted Features

The following features have been accepted for trunk but are not yet scheduled for a specific ILIAS version.

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5 Scheduled Features

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 12:

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The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 11:

  1. Changed language entries for ILIAS 11
  2. Move Translations Table to DataTable

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 10:

  1. Changed language entries for ILIAS 10

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 9:

  1. Changed language entries for ILIAS 9
  2. Multilingualism for Wikis
  3. Target Language for Administrative Notifications

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 8:

  1. Change Ambiguous Wording in Study Programme
  2. Changed language entries for ILIAS 8

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 7:

  1. Multi language support for Custom Metadata

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 6:

  1. Setup - Abandon i18n in Setup

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.4:

  1. Multilingual Page Editor for Container Objects

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.3:

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.2:

  1. Uninstall Local Changes

The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.1:

  1. Improve Multi-Linguality and Translation
  2. Improve Usage of Subtitles
  3. Language Detection via Browser
  4. Localization of Client List

The following features have already been developed and published in ILIAS 5.0:

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The following features have already been developed and published in ILIAS 4.4:

 
The following features have already been developed and published in ILIAS 4.3:

 
The following features have already been developed and published in ILIAS 4.2:

  • none

 
The following features have already been developed and published in ILIAS 4.1:

 
The following features have already been developed and published in ILIAS 4.0:

  • none

6 Redundant and Rejected Feature Requests

Requests that are redundant (already implemented in other requests)

  1. spell check in chat

Rejected Feature Requests

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Last edited: 27. Oct 2025, 11:11, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]