`po_slave_languages` is used to set the list of supported "slave"
languages, such as:
- po_slave_languages => [ 'fr' => 'Français',
+ po_slave_languages => { 'fr' => 'Français',
'es' => 'Español',
'de' => 'Deutsch',
- ]
+ }
Decide which pages are translatable
-----------------------------------
An integration branch, called `meta-po`, merges [[intrigeri]]'s `po`
and `meta` branches, and thus has this additional features.
+Language display order
+----------------------
+
+Jonas pointed out that one might want to control the order that links to
+other languages are listed, for various reasons. Currently, there is no
+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]]
+
+> Done in my po branch, preserving backward compatibility. Please
+> review :) --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>> Right, well my immediate concern is that using an array to hold
+>> hash-like pairs is not very clear to the user. It will be displayed
+>> in a confusing way by websetup; dumping a setup file will probably
+>> also cause it to be formatted in a confusing way. And the code
+>> seems to assume that the array length is even, and probably blows
+>> up if it is not.. and the value is marked safe so websetup can be
+>> used to modify it and break that way too. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> I have added a sanity check for the even array problem. This was
+>>> the easy part.
+>>>
+>>> About the hash-like vs. dump and websetup issue,
+>>> I can think of a few solutions:
+>>>
+>>> - keep the current hash-like pairs and unmark this setting as safe
+>>> for websetup: this does not solve the dump setup issue, though;
+>>> - replace the array of pairs with an array of
+>>> "LANGUAGECODE|LANGUAGENAME" elements, using a pipe or whatever
+>>> separator seems adequate;
+>>> - add support for ordered hashes to `$config`, websetup and
+>>> dumpsetup, using Tie-IxHash or any similar module;
+>>> - replace the array of hash-like pairs with an array of real
+>>> pairs, such as `[ ['de', 'Deutsch'], ['fr', 'Français'] ]`; this
+>>> brings once again the need for `$config` to support arrays of
+>>> arrays, which I have already implemented in my mirrorlist branch
+>>> (see [[todo/mirrorlist_with_per-mirror_usedirs_settings]] for
+>>> details).
+>>>
+>>> Joey, which of these solutions do you prefer? Or another one?
+>>> I tend to prefer the last one. --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>>>> I prefer the pipe separator, I think. I'm concerned that there is
+>>>> no way to really sanely represent complex data structures in web
+>>>> setup. --[[Joey]]
+
Pagespecs
---------
> Any simple testcase to reproduce it, please? I've never seen this
> happen yet. --[[intrigeri]]
+>> Sure, go here <http://l10n.ikiwiki.info/smiley/smileys/index.sv.html>
+>> (Currently 0% translateed) and see the 'WikiLink' link at the bottom,
+>> which goes to <http://l10n.ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.cgi?page=ikiwiki/wikilink&from=smiley/smileys&do=create>
+>> Compare with eg, the 100% translated Dansk version, where
+>> the WikiLink link links to the English WikiLink page. --[[Joey]]
+
Double commits of po files
--------------------------
> * The ENCODING\n part is due to an inconsistency in po4a, which
> I've just send a patch for. --[[intrigeri]]
+New pages not translatable
+--------------------------
+
+Today I added a new English page to l10n.ikiwiki.info. When I saved,
+the page did not have the translation links at the top. I waited until
+the po plugin had, in the background, created the po files, and refreshed;
+still did not see the translation links. Only when I touched the page
+source and refreshed did it finally add the translation links.
+I can reproduce this bug in a test site. --[[Joey]]
+
Ugly messages with empty files
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