Moodle 2.0

Configuring Your Site
Sitewide locale
Enter a language code into this field, and the system displays dates in the format
appropriate for that language.
Excel encoding
Most of the reports that Moodle generates can be downloaded as Excel files. User
logs and grades are two examples. This setting lets you choose the encoding for those
Excel files.
Your choices are Unicode and Latin. The default is Unicode, because this character
set includes many more characters than Latin. In many cases, Latin encoding doesn't
offer enough characters to completely represent a non-English language.
Offering courses in multiple languages
The settings on the Language Settings page apply to translating the Moodle
interface. However, they do not apply to translating course content.
If you want to offer course content in multiple languages, you have several choices.
First, you could put all of the different languages into each course. That is, each
document would appear in a course in several languages. For example, if you offered
a botany course in English and Spanish, you might have a document defining the
different types of plants in both English and Spanish, side by side in the same
course: Types of Plants and Tipos de Plantaras. While taking the course, students
would select the documents in their language. Course names would appear in only
one language.
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