Default language issue

[hishamdar]

Hello,

recently i have an issue with Default Language settings with my form,

I think since the last update these changes happened as previously was working properly!

My form has a AR default language and set in the xls form (settings sheet),

but when open it ,it goes to English directly, ? any solution?

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @hishamdar,

You should be able to learn why this is happening (with the current release of Enketo) as discussed in the post that has happened earlier:

Default language corrupted after update

Hi @aamra, The new version of Enketo includes automatic language detection, so if your form contains an (en) translation and the browser’s language is set to English, it will show the English labels (see https://github.com/enketo/enketo-express/issues/57#issuecomment-611574703, specifically the “scenarios to test” at the bottom). If the browser is set to use Arabic, then your form should also appear in Arabic automatically. Alternatively, you could append ?lang=ar to the end of your form’s Enke…

As a workaround you could try this out (to solve your issue):

Set the URL for a form in a certain language

Hi @masims, Welcome to the community! You could do the same as outlined below: Suppose you wish to provide a default survey link that supports German language: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1 (survey)] Deploy the survey project. Get the URL as you would normally get. Suppose i got a URL after deploying my survey project https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/ZQXrvQqL. In the end of the URL add ?lang=de which becomes https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/ZQXrvQqL?lang=de. You should see your data e…

Have a great day!

[hishamdar]

Thank you very much Kal_Lam, appreciated!