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Maintainer and Tester
- Language Handling
- Authority to Sign off on Conceptual Changes: mkunkel
- Authority to Sign off on Code Changes: mkunkel, katrin.grosskopf, ChrisPotter, keven.clausen, cknof
- Authority to Curate Test Cases: ChrisPotter
- Authority to (De-)Assign Authorities: mkunkel
- Assignee for Security Reports: mkunkel
- Assignee for Security Issues: mkunkel
- Unit-specific Guidelines, Rules, and Regulations: LINK MISSING
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
- Introducing RFC 5646 language coding scheme for language and region to allow multiple versions per language, see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5646
- Separating language service from language files
2 Projects
The following projects are planned or have been realised for this component:
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Ongoing Projects
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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
Already suggested
- Gendered Terms in German Language File
- If string not exists in a lang file use english version of the string
- Keep language selection of user agreement for account setting
- Language Settings in User Content
- Language Update as Background Task
- Language-sensitive order of first and last name
- Localization for Date Format
- Multi-Lingual Taxonomies
- Multilingual Container Objects
- Multilingual Input Element
- Multilingual SCORM-Modules as one Object
- Multilingual Titles and Descriptions for All Object Types + Plugins
- Multilinguality Enhancements (Overview)
- Named Placeholder in Translations
- Offer Multilingualism for Course, Group and Category Links
- Offer Multilingualism for study programme link
- Revision of Language Handling in Page Editor
- Revision of Language Maintenance
- 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:
The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 10:
The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 9:
The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 8:
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The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 6:
The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.4:
The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.3:
The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.2:
The following features have been scheduled / published in ILIAS 5.1:
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:
- Improvements of the extended Language Maintenance
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)
Rejected Feature Requests
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Last edited: 27. Oct 2025, 11:11, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]