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[Aaron Wells <905051@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well-stated, Robert.

To offer a counterpoint, I think the main reason to make this change
would be to maintain similarity with Moodle. Our lang system is based on
theirs, but in the change from Moodle 1.9 -> 2 they changed their lang
folders from "en_utf8" to just "en". So by still having the "_utf8", we
look a bit outdated to potential Mahara devs coming over from Moodle.

But as you said, this offers no benefit at all to front-end users.

Cheers,
Aaron

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905051

Title:
  The .utf8 in language packs is not meaningful and should be removed

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  We only support the UTF-8 encoding for language packages, so something
  like "en.utf8" should just be called "en".

  Here's an idea for how to make the transition:

  1- add support for "en" without the .utf8 everywhere (not removing support for en.utf8)
  2- switch all of our tools (e.g. the language pack scripts) to produce directories without .utf8
  3- issue a warning in the admin area if there are any .utf8 directories and tell admins to rename them
  4- in the pre-upgrade checks, check for .utf8 directories and abort
  5- stop reading from .utf8 directories

  Steps 1 to 3 could be done in the same release, but 4 and 5 need to
  wait for at least the release after that.

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