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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / plugins / po.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
index b4c8b135eac332742410a4742e3ba6d8261b1a77..576d36ec17a51fc38e344a5162895e76f5c6dd4b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -129,11 +129,12 @@ For details, see [Apache's documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/conte
 lighttpd
 --------
 
-lighttpd unfortunately does not support content negotiation.
+Recent versions of lighttpd should be able to use
+`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translatted pages to be served.
 
-**FIXME**: does `mod_magnet` provide the functionality needed to
- emulate this?
+See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119)
 
+TODO: Example
 
 Usage
 =====
@@ -253,17 +254,6 @@ once [[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch is merged.
 An integration branch, called `meta-po`, merges [[intrigeri]]'s `po`
 and `meta` branches, and thus has this additional features.
 
-Self links
-----------
-
-If a page contains a WikiLink to itself, ikiwiki does not normally
-turn that into a hyperlink. However, if a translated page contains a
-WikiLink to itself, a hyperlink is inserted, at least with the default
-`po_link_to` the link points to the English version of the page. Is there a
-good reason for that to be done? --[[Joey]]
-
-> The commit 0113c69d4fb in my po branch might fix this. --[[intrigeri]]
-
 Language display order
 ----------------------
 
@@ -273,22 +263,6 @@ order, as `po_slave_languages` is a hash. It would need to be converted
 to an array to support this. (If twere done, twere best done quickly.)
 --[[Joey]] 
 
-Duplicate %links ?
-------------------
-
-I notice code in the scan hook that seems to assume
-that %links will accumulate duplicate links for a page.
-That used to be so, but the bug was fixed. Does this mean
-that po might be replacing the only link on a page, in error? 
---[[Joey]] 
-
-Name of toplevel index page
----------------------------
-
-Normally at the top index page of a wiki, you see the wiki name at
-the top. However, at the top *translated* index page, you see something
-like "index.da". --[[Joey]] 
-
 Pagespecs
 ---------
 
@@ -316,14 +290,6 @@ Also, this may only happen if the page being linked to is coming from an
 underlay, and the underlays lack translation to a given language.
 --[[Joey]] 
 
-recentchanges links to po files
--------------------------------
-
-When a po file is changed, the recentchanges page shows a link such as
-"sandbox.es". But, clicking on it goes to the English (or negotiated
-language) version of the page. It would be better in this one case if
-the link went direct to the translated version of the page. --[[Joey]] 
-
 Double commits of po files
 --------------------------
 
@@ -343,6 +309,18 @@ Ugly messages with empty files
 
 If there are empty .mdwn files, the po plugin displays some ugly messages.
 
+Translation of directives
+-------------------------
+
+If a translated page contains a directive, it may expand to some english
+text, or text in whatever single language ikiwiki is configured to "speak".
+
+Maybe there could be a way to switch ikiwiki to speaking another language
+when building a non-english page? Then the directives would get translated.
+
+(We also will need this in order to use translated templates, when they are
+available.)
+
 Documentation
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