This plugin is a ported version from https://github.com/edx/tinymce-language-selector, the code has been modified to make this plugin compatible with TinyMCE Version 4.
This is a plugin for TinyMCE 4 that allows users to specify what language their text is written in. The plugin wraps
the desired text in span tags with a lang attribute for the specified language. Unspecified text is assumed to be
written in the page's language. This helps the resulting text comply with WCAG 2.0 3.1.2 Language of Parts: "The
human language of each passage or phrase in the content can be programmatically determined..."
The plugin is intended for use as you are creating a new passage. It also works when you need to change the language of an existing passage, but not as well (see below Caveats section for details). For best results, don’t select any text and just change in and out of different language modes while typing.
- The repo currently doesn't contain any unit tests due to how specific TinyMCE's testing framework is to itself. It has only been tested manually so far.
- One known limitation is that you can't select and change the language of text that goes across multiple HTML tags (besides formatting). An error will be raised to the user. You can select and change the language of anything smaller than a paragraph, provided the paragraph does not contain any language spans inside of it already.
- There wasn’t a TinyMCE-endorsed way of changing the button text, so we directly modify the
innerTextof the button node. I’m not sure how well this will work with internationalization and non-default styling.