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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 f6409aae5fc98a24fe797451c7ce368b6ca8a01d..f3b70b5f786b5f244d8e3ba4ef6a8af0b0f8db2e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ Apache
 
 Using Apache `mod_negotiation` makes it really easy to have Apache
 serve any page in the client's preferred language, if available.
-This is the default Debian Apache configuration.
+
+Add 'Options MultiViews' to the wiki directory's configuration in Apache.
 
 When `usedirs` is enabled, one has to set `DirectoryIndex index` for
 the wiki context.
@@ -123,6 +124,8 @@ Setting `DefaultLanguage LL` (replace `LL` with your default MIME
 language code) for the wiki context can help to ensure
 `bla/page/index.en.html` is served as `Content-Language: LL`.
 
+For details, see [Apache's documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html).
+
 lighttpd
 --------
 
@@ -250,15 +253,6 @@ 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]] 
-
 Language display order
 ----------------------
 
@@ -268,22 +262,6 @@ 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
 ---------
 
@@ -304,7 +282,12 @@ pages as edit links, as if those pages do not exist.
 That's really confusing, especially as clicking such a link
 brings up an edit form to create a new, english page.
 
-This is with po_link_to=current. With default, it doesn't happen..
+This is with po_link_to=current or negotiated. With default, it doesn't
+happen.. 
+
+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]] 
 
 Double commits of po files
 --------------------------
@@ -318,7 +301,24 @@ and then committed again. The second commit makes this change:
        +"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
 
 Same thing happens when a change to an existing page triggers a po file
-update.
+update. --[[Joey]] 
+
+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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