Untranslated strings in Feedback xblock

mboisson · April 14, 2026, 5:58pm

There are a few strings that don’t get translated in the Feedback xblock:

`Thank you for voting!`

`Thank you for your feedback!`

This is even though those strings are properly translated in Transifex. Any idea why this is @kmccormick ?

mboisson · April 14, 2026, 6:03pm

Also, whenever we input custom text in the xblock’s parameters, if there are apostrophes, we run into this:

Is there a way to fix these incorrect signs once and for all ?

In this case they show as ' for whatever reason…

If I keep the default text, apostrophes are displayed correctly. If I just open the settings page of the component and save, without changing anything, they revert to this incorrect notation.

kmccormick · April 14, 2026, 6:17pm

I’m sorry @mboisson , I’m not sure what the cause of each of those bugs are. If you or anyone else has the capacity to investigate, we’d certainly accept contributions to fix either of them.

mboisson · April 14, 2026, 6:26pm

I can see from the code

github.com/openedx/FeedbackXBlock

feedback/feedback.py

master


      
          
          user_freeform = String(default="", scope=Scope.user_state,
                                 help=_("Feedback"))
          
          display_name = String(
              display_name=_("Display Name"),
              default=_("Provide Feedback"),
              scopde=Scope.settings
          )
          
          voting_message = String(
              display_name=_("Voting message"),
              default=_("Thank you for voting!"),
              scope=Scope.settings
          )
          
          feedback_message = String(
              display_name=_("Feedback message"),
              default=_("Thank you for your feedback!"),
              scope=Scope.settings
          )

that those strings are not declared in the same place:

github.com/openedx/FeedbackXBlock

feedback/feedback.py

master


      
          _ = self.runtime.service(self, 'i18n').ugettext
          # This is the default prompt if something is not specified in the
          # settings dictionary. Note that this is not the same as the default
          # above. The default above is the prompt the instructor starts from
          # in a tool like Studio. This is a fallback in case some JSON fields
          # are left unpopulated (e.g. if someone manually tweaks the database,
          # in case of OLX authoring, and similar). The examplar above is
          # intended as a well-structured, coherent response. This is designed
          # as generic, to work with any content as a safe fallback.
          prompt = {
              'freeform': _("Please reflect on this course material"),
              'default_text': _("Please take time to meaningfully reflect "
                                "on your experience with this course "
                                "material."),
              'likert': _("Please rate your overall experience"),
              'scale_text': [_("Excellent"),
                             _("Good"),
                             _("Average"),
                             _("Fair"),
                             _("Poor")],
              'icon_set': 'num',

but they both seem to use the _(...) semantic for translation, so I don’t know why one is translated and one is not. My hypothesis is because the “Thank you for voting!” and “Thank you for your feedback” appear after the user takes an action, presumably through JavaScript, and something is missing to handle that translation, but what exactly…

As for the weird apostrophe symbols, this is a complete mystery to me.

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