I just realized that I should offer this clarification for some of our
friends, to avoid any misunderstandings:

"terrific" means "wonderful"

"terrific" does NOT mean "terrible"!

English is a fun language.


On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 01:11 Robert Savickas <robsavic...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Maxim, thank you. That would be terrific! Robert
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 00:39 Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would it help if Capital letters will be used instead of small ones?
>> And maybe there will be text like: Captcha consist of English letters 'A'
>> - 'Z' only ....
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 02:49, Robert Savickas <robsavic...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
>>> My users, some of whom use non-Latin alfabets, have no problem with
>>> using Latin letters in the captcha.
>>>
>>> My current problem with the captcha, shared by my users is that the
>>> characters are often hard to recognize. Capital I vesus small l.  Or
>>> capital I verus ].  Or m versus n. Or g versus q.  Often, the letters are
>>> sufficiently deformed so as to be difficult not only to Robot, but also to
>>> Robert and other humans to distinguish.  As a result, several captchas are
>>> often needed till a person can get it.
>>>
>>> Granted, it is a terrific tool for teaching folks how to have patience,
>>> highly recommended. But sometimes, folks are under the time pressure to
>>> enter the meeting (now, why do they try to connect only in the very last
>>> minute, that's a separate question)...
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 08:48 Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> the bad news: there seems to be no universal way to determine alphabet
>>>> by language
>>>> the ugly news: there are languages without alphabet ....
>>>>
>>>> start and end character can be manually specified here
>>>> https://github.com/apache/openmeetings/blob/master/openmeetings-web/src/main/webapp/languages/languages.xml
>>>>
>>>> Another option might be to made this range _optional_
>>>> so 'a' - 'z' will be used if else is not specified ....
>>>> Not sure is someone will bother to specify different range ...
>>>>
>>>> but I'm not sure how good is this idea :(((
>>>>
>>>> @Robert what kind of difficulties your user have with the captcha?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 20:28, Ali Alhaidary <ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We can write the language name on the 'new user' or 'change password'
>>>>> screens ...
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/2/20 4:24 PM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>>>> > It is definitely can be localized
>>>>> > unfortunately this might lead to issues with guessing the text
>>>>> > for ex. many letters in Russian looks exactly as in English but the
>>>>> > text will not be equal :((
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 19:05, Ali Alhaidary <
>>>>> ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org> wrote:
>>>>> >> If no votes are collected, can we localize it?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31828048/how-to-set-localization-in-google-recaptcha
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On 12/2/20 2:59 PM, Ali Alhaidary wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Any more votes?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On 12/1/20 2:22 PM, Ali Alhaidary wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I am with it :-)
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On 12/1/20 2:58 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> And as usual I'll add such switch if there will be enough votes for
>>>>> it
>>>>> >> while I, personally, will not recommend to use it
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 13:14, Ali Alhaidary <
>>>>> ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org> wrote:
>>>>> >>> True, one can not always get what he loves :-)
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> On 11/30/20 9:12 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Well,
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> I'm not a big fan of such "enhancements"
>>>>> >>> with all these options password "can be 'qwerty' again" ....
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 12:58, Ali Alhaidary <
>>>>> ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org> wrote:
>>>>> >>>> I would love it to be an option like caps and special characters,
>>>>> especially with the difficulty of RTL users like ours :-)
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> On 11/30/20 8:42 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> Hello Robert,
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> it is currently impossible without code modification
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 14:37, Robert Savickas <
>>>>> robsavic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>>>> Dear Maxim,
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> Is there a way to disable captcha when changing the password?
>>>>> The images are often difficult to read, and many users have to reset the
>>>>> captcha image a few times, till they finally get it.
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> Thank you.
>>>>> >>>>> Robert
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020, 01:15 Maxim Solodovnik <
>>>>> solomax...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> I have added notifications to OM (as part of OPENMEETINGS-2190)
>>>>> >>>>>> Could you please  take a look at demo-next and tell me WDYT?
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> maybe it should be improved somehow?
>>>>> >>>>>> text, icon, anything else :)
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> --
>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> >>>>>> Maxim
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> --
>>>>> >>>> Best regards,
>>>>> >>>> Maxim
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> --
>>>>> >>> Best regards,
>>>>> >>> Maxim
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> --
>>>>> >> Best regards,
>>>>> >> Maxim
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Maxim
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Maxim
>>
>

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