How to change the enketo form action buttons language?

alan_luqman · August 30, 2024, 1:53pm

Dear community,
I try to change the enketo form action buttons like( Submit, and Save Draft) to the Kurdish language. I would appreciate your help if anyone knows how to change the button’s text in different languages.

Kal_Lam · August 31, 2024, 10:37am

@alan_luqman, did you change the language settings from your KoboToolbox Account Settings as shown in the image below?

It should be possible if the desired language is available there.

alan_luqman · August 31, 2024, 4:24pm

Dear @Kal_Lam thanks for your reply, actually it does not work because Kurdish language is not on the list you have mentioned. So, I am looking for a method to change or translate action buttons into Kurdish.

Kal_Lam · September 2, 2024, 1:41pm

@alan_luqman, so you mean everything is three in Kurdish language except Submit and Save Draft? Did I get you correctly?

alan_luqman · September 2, 2024, 1:59pm

Dear @Kal_Lam I can change the form content to Kurdish, but I can’t do this with Submit, Save Draft and the system action buttons. I hope you and the community can help me with this issue. Appreciate it.

Kal_Lam · September 2, 2024, 2:18pm

@alan_luqman, this GitHub repo should provide you with some glimpses of all the languages that Enketo supports.

guido_bohmann · April 8, 2025, 8:03am

Please note:
Check your forms for using the correct 2-digit language code!
For example, if I create a new form and set the language to German, the system shows me:
“Deutsch (deu)”.
But as you can see from many tutorial and support sites in here, the language code in KoboToolBox only works with the 2-digit language code “de” (instead of “deu”).
So, it might be worth trying having a look into the language settings of your form whether there is a 3-digit language code. If so, try replacing it with the 2-digit ISO code:

It worked for me

guido_bohmann · April 10, 2025, 12:56pm

Addendum:

It seems, the 3-digit code is needed for doing a correct spellchecking within the text input elements.
Thus, add another language, name it e.g. “Spellchecking” and use the 3-digit ISO code there.
Then, use the 2-digit ISO code for letting the system know that you would like the GUI in your language and make (or keep) the 2-digit code as the default (“Standard” in German) language:

If you do it the other way round you might get some very strange behaviour when trying to alter the form once again:
In my case, I could preview the form correctly, but all the questions and relations where shown as “Empty” or “null”.