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diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
index 7165015ab..576d36ec1 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ This plugin adds support for multi-lingual wikis, translated with
gettext, using [po4a](http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/).
It depends on the Perl `Locale::Po4a::Po` library (`apt-get install po4a`).
+As detailed bellow in the security section, `po4a` is subject to
+denial-of-service attacks before version 0.35.
[[!toc levels=2]]
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ Supported languages
languages, such as:
po_slave_languages => { 'fr' => 'Français',
- 'es' => 'Castellano',
+ 'es' => 'Español',
'de' => 'Deutsch',
}
@@ -70,17 +72,19 @@ worry about excluding them explicitly from this [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
Internal links
--------------
+### Links targets
+
The `po_link_to` option in `ikiwiki.setup` is used to decide how
internal links should be generated, depending on web server features
and site-specific preferences.
-### Default linking behavior
+#### Default linking behavior
If `po_link_to` is unset, or set to `default`, ikiwiki's default
linking behavior is preserved: `\[[destpage]]` links to the master
language's page.
-### Link to current language
+#### Link to current language
If `po_link_to` is set to `current`, `\[[destpage]]` links to the
`destpage`'s version written in the current page's language, if
@@ -89,7 +93,7 @@ available, *i.e.*:
* `foo/destpage/index.LL.html` if `usedirs` is enabled
* `foo/destpage.LL.html` if `usedirs` is disabled
-### Link to negotiated language
+#### Link to negotiated language
If `po_link_to` is set to `negotiated`, `\[[page]]` links to the
negotiated preferred language, *i.e.* `foo/page/`.
@@ -102,7 +106,6 @@ negotiated preferred language, *i.e.* `foo/page/`.
* if the web server does not support Content Negotiation, setting
`po_link_to` to `negotiated` will produce a unusable website.
-
Server support
==============
@@ -111,7 +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.
@@ -120,14 +124,17 @@ 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
--------
-lighttpd unfortunately does not support content negotiation.
+Recent versions of lighttpd should be able to use
+`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translatted pages to be served.
-**FIXME**: does `mod_magnet` provide the functionality needed to
- emulate this?
+See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119)
+TODO: Example
Usage
=====
@@ -147,24 +154,9 @@ display things only on translatable or translation pages.
The `OTHERLANGUAGES` loop provides ways to display other languages'
versions of the same page, and the translations' status.
-One typically adds the following code to `templates/page.tmpl`:
-
-
-
-
-
- -
- ">
-
- ( %)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+completeness, expressed in percent, on "slave" pages. It is used by
+the default `templates/page.tmpl`.
Additional PageSpec tests
-------------------------
@@ -228,8 +213,8 @@ preferred `$EDITOR`, without needing to be online.
Markup languages support
------------------------
-Markdown is well supported. Some other markup languages supported by
-ikiwiki mostly work, but some pieces of syntax are not rendered
+[[Markdown|mdwn]] is well supported. Some other markup languages supported
+by ikiwiki mostly work, but some pieces of syntax are not rendered
correctly on the slave pages:
* [[reStructuredText|rst]]: anonymous hyperlinks and internal
@@ -243,7 +228,7 @@ correctly on the slave pages:
Security
========
-[[./security]] contains a detailed security analysis of this plugin
+[[po/discussion]] contains a detailed security analysis of this plugin
and its dependencies.
When using po4a older than 0.35, it is recommended to uninstall
@@ -256,49 +241,85 @@ TODO
Better links
------------
-### Page title in links
-
-Using the fix to
+Once the fix to
[[bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles]] from
-[[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch, the generated links' text is based on
-the page titles set with the [[meta|plugins/meta]] plugin. This has to
-be merged into ikiwiki upstream, though.
+[[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch is merged into ikiwiki upstream, the
+generated links' text will be optionally based on the page titles set
+with the [[meta|plugins/meta]] plugin, and will thus be translatable.
+It will also allow displaying the translation status in links to slave
+pages. Both were implemented, and reverted in commit
+ea753782b222bf4ba2fb4683b6363afdd9055b64, which should be reverted
+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.
+
+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]]
+
+Pagespecs
+---------
-Robustness tests
-----------------
+I was suprised that, when using the map directive, a pagespec of "*"
+listed all the translated pages as well as regular pages. That can
+make a big difference to an existing wiki when po is turned on,
+and seems generally not wanted.
+(OTOH, you do want to match translated pages by
+default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]]
-### Enabling/disabling the plugin
+Edit links on untranslated pages
+--------------------------------
-* enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set to blacklist: **OK**
-* enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set to whitelist: **OK**
-* enabling the plugin without `po_translatable_pages` set: **OK**
-* disabling the plugin: **OK**
+If a page is not translated yet, the "translated" version of it
+displays wikilinks to other, existing (but not yet translated?)
+pages as edit links, as if those pages do not exist.
-### Changing the plugin config
+That's really confusing, especially as clicking such a link
+brings up an edit form to create a new, english page.
-* adding existing pages to `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
-* removing existing pages from `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
-* adding a language to `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
-* removing a language from `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
-* changing `po_master_language`: **OK**
-* replacing `po_master_language` with a language previously part of
- `po_slave_languages`: needs two rebuilds, but **OK** (this is quite
- a perverse test actually)
+This is with po_link_to=current or negotiated. With default, it doesn't
+happen..
-### Creating/deleting/renaming pages
+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]]
-All cases of master/slave page creation/deletion/rename, both via RCS
-and via CGI, have been tested.
+Double commits of po files
+--------------------------
+
+When adding a new english page, the po files are created, committed,
+and then committed again. The second commit makes this change:
+
+ -"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
+ -"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING"
+ +"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+ +"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
+
+Same thing happens when a change to an existing page triggers a po file
+update. --[[Joey]]
+
+Ugly messages with empty files
+------------------------------
+
+If there are empty .mdwn files, the po plugin displays some ugly messages.
+
+Translation of directives
+-------------------------
-### Misc
+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".
-* general test with `usedirs` disabled: **OK**
-* general test with `indexpages` enabled: **not OK**
-* general test with `po_link_to=default` with `userdirs` enabled: **OK**
-* general test with `po_link_to=default` with `userdirs` disabled: **OK**
+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.
-Misc. bugs
-----------
+(We also will need this in order to use translated templates, when they are
+available.)
Documentation
-------------