X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4ff3e2a540d154d49dfc70fb89dcc8422f2047e3..6d9026bf28f2850c15566ba0c8b9ee1a88151641:/doc/plugins/po.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 3766ad295..5f713044f 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ Supported languages `po_slave_languages` is used to set the list of supported "slave" languages, such as: - po_slave_languages => { 'fr' => 'Français', - 'es' => 'Español', - 'de' => 'Deutsch', - } + po_slave_languages => [ 'fr|Français', + 'es|Español', + 'de|Deutsch', + ] Decide which pages are translatable ----------------------------------- @@ -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 +`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translated pages to be served. -**FIXME**: does `mod_magnet` provide the functionality needed to - emulate this? +See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119) +TODO: Example Usage ===== @@ -212,16 +213,16 @@ preferred `$EDITOR`, without needing to be online. Markup languages support ------------------------ -[[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: +[[Markdown|mdwn]] and [[html]] are 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 cross-references * [[wikitext]]: conversion of newlines to paragraphs * [[creole]]: verbatim text is wrapped, tables are broken -* [[html]] and LaTeX: not supported yet; the dedicated po4a modules - could be used to support them, but they would need a security audit +* LaTeX: not supported yet; the dedicated po4a module + could be used to support it, but it would need a security audit * other markup languages have not been tested. Security @@ -253,40 +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]] - -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]] - -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 --------- @@ -297,6 +264,11 @@ and seems generally not wanted. (OTOH, you do want to match translated pages by default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]] +> Seems hard to me to sort apart the pagespec whose matching pages +> list must be restricted to pages in the master (or current?) +> language, and the ones that should not. The only solution I can see +> to this surprising behaviour is: documentation. --[[intrigeri]] + Edit links on untranslated pages -------------------------------- @@ -308,7 +280,20 @@ 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 or negotiated. With default, it doesn't -happen.. --[[Joey]] +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]] + +> Any simple testcase to reproduce it, please? I've never seen this +> happen yet. --[[intrigeri]] + +>> Sure, go here +>> (Currently 0% translateed) and see the 'WikiLink' link at the bottom, +>> which goes to +>> Compare with eg, the 100% translated Dansk version, where +>> the WikiLink link links to the English WikiLink page. --[[Joey]] Double commits of po files -------------------------- @@ -324,6 +309,40 @@ and then committed again. The second commit makes this change: Same thing happens when a change to an existing page triggers a po file update. --[[Joey]] +> * The s/utf-8/UTF-8 part has been fixed. +> * 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 +------------------------------ + +If there are empty .mdwn files, the po plugin displays some ugly messages. + +> This is due to a bug in po4a (not checking definedness of a +> variable). One-liner patch sent. --[[intrigeri]] + +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 -------------