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Hi holzapfel,

Thank you for reporting this. I have created a bug report and you can follow it here.

-BV52

Hello! I'd strongly like to emphasis Wiebke's point that the capitalisation bug is a major issue when it comes to learning languages where that difference matters. As for example learning German as a foreign language is becoming more and more relevant (I don't want to say "popular" ;) it would be great if the automatic capitalisation could be fixed. Also, the alternative answers option (indicated by a slash) would make this activity type even more powerful.

Hope the issue gets some attention in 2020!

Thanks!

Hi all!

As for example learning German as a foreign language is becoming more and more relevant [...]

I - as a German native speaker - demand proof! :-D

Anyway, you can fix this yourself if you're running H5P on your own server. You just need to override the .h5p-imagetext:first-letter CSS class and set the text-transform property to inherit, see customizing the visual appearance of H5P. It'd be a one-line change, but if the letter was capitalized in the first place, I assume it happened for a reason and a pull-request would not get through.

As for the alternatives: I'd prefer a | as it's a more common separator of alternatives in the IT world and more seldom used in natural language, so it won't kill use cases where people want "2/4" or something similar to be accepted. Adding this would be a change of one line of code (maybe two if you also want to have a nicer display of the correct solution - and changing the description text for the field in the editor and possible one extra l10n entry for "or", of course), and my offer is: If the H5P core team merges one of my existing 34 pull-requests for other content types into the official code, I'll create another pull request for this one :-)

Best,
Oliver

Thanks for this straightforward reply! We'll definitely give your self-fix suggestion a shot and let you all know here about the outcome. Because German and other capitalsising languages really matter ;)

Using | to separate alternative answers is totally fine with me and I absolutely want to encourage the core team to accept your offer! :)

Best,

Stine

Hi there,

As promised here's the feedback on the capitalisatoin bug fix Oliver (otacke) suggested. We overrode the line and it works perfectly as far as we can tell - small and capital letters where they are supposed to be. Thanks a lot and fingers crossed for the alternative answer request!

Best,

Stine

In the meantime a hack to fix it, add "‍" before the text.