Two Drifters

Mein Bruder hat auf seinem Ubuntu Notebook chinesisch als Hauptsprache installiert. Klar, wir sprechen alle Chinesisch … nicht!

Jetzt hatte er mich gebeten etwas für ihn daran zu machen. Also musste erst Chinesisch durch z.b. Englisch ersetzt werden.

Leider müsste man in der GUI auch erkennen, welche chinesichen Zeichen denn jetzt dafür stehen, dass man die Sprache konfigurieren kann. Ich habe probeweise ein paar angeklickt, es kamen jedoch immer irgendwelche Dialoge mit noch mehr Chinesisch (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes!).

Nach einer Internetrecherche, dank dieser Seite die Lösung:

• eine Konsole aufrufen (die erkennt man an dem Konsolen-Icon)
• sudo nano /etc/default/locale
• ggf. User-passwort eingeben
• eintragen:

LANG="en_GB"
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"

• speichern (Ctrl + O)
• schließen (Ctrl + X)
• System neustarten ( sudo reboot )

Nach dem Neustart sind wichtige Teile des Systems – bspw. die Menüleiste ganz oben – in Englisch. Das sollte es einem ermöglichen auch den Rest umzustellen … falls notwendig.

Andere Teile, bspw. FireFox bleiben allerdings in Chinesisch, und sind daher verteufelt schwer zu bedienen … so muss sich ein Analphabet vorkommen!

Problem: If you publish a title with Lectora, and try to view it from Opera, instead of the title you see an error message

Your browser does not support dynamic html. Please download a current version of either Microsoft'" DESIGNTIMESP=18189>Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla'" DESIGNTIMESP=18192>Mozilla Firefox and try visiting our site again. Thank You.

Solution: You have to modify trivantis.js in line 353 and line 355. The modifications are displayed in bold

this.ns = (name=="ns" && this.v>=4)||(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1)
this.ns4 = (this.ns && this.v==4)
this.ns5 = (this.ns && this.v==5)||(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1)

IMPORTANT: WordPress fucks up the quotation marks above, fix them by hand!!!

This tells Lectora's code to treat Opera like Netscape Navigator and its derivates. For the title we are developing for the WHO (ICF eLearning tool) it works flawlessly.

This fix is taken from this Lectora forum message, posted by ssneg.

(ssneg also explains why it is not possible to override this.min and set it to true – because Lectora only includes code for IE or NS to display the title contents, like buttons, later on. Thus we need for Opera to "pretend" that it is Navigator. The code works.)

Do you know any other browsers incompatible with Lectora? Please post a comment, and we might find a solution :-)!

Sometimes Lectora renders the HTML, and you end up with broken pages. You start trying to disable things, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

My advice: first use Firefox' error console to find out what the error is about. Sometimes it's an "unterminated string literal":

VarAktuellerKapitelname.set( 'El modelo biopsicosocial integrativo de la CIF

' )

You can solve this problem by patching the file and re-copying it over the output when rendering. (Of course you have to keep track of whether the page gets updated …)

Here's the correct version of this line of code:

VarAktuellerKapitelname.set( 'El modelo biopsicosocial integrativo de la CIF' )

Easy, huh? The real challenge lies in tracking the little files … Well, why don't you make it our problem? We'll solve Lectora problems for you – ask for our competitive rates!

Internet Explorer's refusing to work with the tabs – that is, the first two tabs work then everything breaks. Firefoxy and Opera do what I intend them to do. Have I mentioned that cross-browser developing can be a burden?

It turns out, that Internet Explorer has a problem with the <FORM> not wrapping around everything, but being split up between DIVs.

This does not work with Internet Explorer:

<div class="panes">
<DIV>
<form action="/" method="post">
…
</DIV>
<DIV>
…
</DIV>
<DIV>
</form>
</DIV>
</DIV><!–closing the panes–>

This works:

<form action="/" method="post">
<div class="panes">
<DIV>
…
</DIV>
<DIV>
…
</DIV>
<DIV>
</DIV>
</DIV><!–closing the panes–>
</form><!–form wraps around the panes –>