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[Dominique-Alain JAN <860173@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good comments Melissa,

But we could also thing differently. We could admit that icon with texts
or local idiomatic are important. Then we could provide a way of having
localised icons.

When Mahara has to display an icon the procedure will load the icon from
the language package. My reflection on this is the following :

Option A :
    The procedure looks into the "icons" folder of the selected language pack. If not found, take the icon from the "icons" folder in the English pack. The "icons" folder is a new folder put into each "lang" folder

Option B :
   Access to icons are made by the getstring() function, presently used to display English and localised strings from the lang folders. In the actual lang files, strings with the path to the icons to display are added. Translators can then change the icon's path to a localised icon. Futhermore, anyone could change the icon of the interface, editing the lang files.

Are these silly ideas? or not?

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Title:
  Create graphical-only icons to replace untranslatable ones

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  A number of blocktype icons, including journals, resume, friends,
  pages, groups, wall, textbox, and watchlist, contain untranslatable
  English text.  They should be replaced with graphical-only versions.

  There are similar issues for some of the 'home page info' icons, and
  see also the related bug #812147.

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