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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The Moodle WonderWall (Facebook-like Wall) with Unicode (UTF-8 Encoding)



With the help of Waldemar Fiszer, the Wall now displays text in Unicode UTF-8. What this means is that I can display other language texts on in posts to the wall. So the Wall now becomes a sort of United Nations.

For example:

UTF-8 unicode encoding is supported. Below I have posted in various languages: Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, and here's some French:
Bienvenue ! Vous êtes nouveau ? perdu ? Lisez ceci !

ムードル)は機能が豊富で、かつオープンソースで無料の教育管理ソフトです。
Форум "Методика и стратегия дистанционного обучения" на infoco.ru
Phiên bản Moodle 2.4 chính thức được phát hành với một số tính năng mớ:
在您参与社区讨论之前请注意一下几点:
وايضا اذا كانت لديكم اية تجارب سابقة وتريدون تبدال الخبرات مع المطورين  يمكنكم مناقشتها في منتدى المطورين

מניסיוני יש לא מעט אתגרים בשימוש בעברית בתוכנות שונות, ומודל כמערכת מורכבת במיוחד היא לא יוצאת מהכלל.


Try it out here:


Moodle 1.9 version of the Wall

http://www.moodurian.com/course/view.php?id=38
Username: studentscm
Password: studentscm

And here:



Moodle 2.3.2 version of the Wall
http://www.moodurian.com/m232/mod/page/view.php?id=3
Just use Guest access

Go ahead, give it a try. If you are interested to setup your own "International" Wonderwall on your Moodle 1.9.x or Moodle 2.x production site, please do not hesitate to contact me at: boonsengkam@gmail.com

Until the next time, Happy Moodling!
Frankie Kam





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1 comment:

  1. These 2 posts helped me to setup my MySQL database and tables to accept and display Unicode letters. I recommend them highly to you, but please backup your MySQL database before attempting any of the MySQL code execution!!!
    http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/08/31/solving-php-mysql-utf-8-issues/
    -and-
    http://www.bothernomore.com/2008/12/16/character-encoding-hell/
    Regards Frankie Kam

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