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@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ gettext, using [po4a](http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/).
It depends on the Perl `Locale::Po4a::Po` library (`apt-get install po4a`).
+[[!toc levels=2]]
+
Introduction
============
A language is chosen as the "master" one, and any other supported
language is a "slave" one.
-A page written in the "master" language is a "master" page, and is
-written in any supported format but PO. It does not have to be named
-a special way: migration from/to this plugin does not imply heavy
+A page written in the "master" language is a "master" page. It can be
+of any page type supported by ikiwiki, except `po`. It does not have to be
+named a special way: migration to this plugin does not imply any page
renaming work.
Example: `bla/page.mdwn` is a "master" Markdown page written in
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ English; if `usedirs` is enabled, it is rendered as
`bla/page/index.en.html`, else as `bla/page.en.html`.
Any translation of a "master" page into a "slave" language is called
-a "slave" page; it is written in the gettext PO format. PO is now
+a "slave" page; it is written in the gettext PO format. `po` is now
a page type supported by ikiwiki.
Example: `bla/page.fr.po` is the PO "message catalog" used to
@@ -33,7 +35,10 @@ rendered as `bla/page/index.fr.html`, else as `bla/page.fr.html`
Configuration
=============
-`po_master_language` is used to set the master language in
+Supported languages
+-------------------
+
+`po_master_language` is used to set the "master" language in
`ikiwiki.setup`, such as:
po_master_language => { 'code' => 'en', 'name' => 'English' }
@@ -41,45 +46,55 @@ Configuration
`po_slave_languages` is used to set the list of supported "slave"
languages, such as:
- po_slave_languages => { 'fr' => { 'name' => 'Français', },
- 'es' => { 'name' => 'Castellano', },
- 'de' => { 'name' => 'Deutsch', }
+ po_slave_languages => { 'fr' => 'Français',
+ 'es' => 'Castellano',
+ 'de' => 'Deutsch',
}
+Decide which pages are translatable
+-----------------------------------
+
+The `po_translatable_pages` setting configures what pages are
+translatable. It is a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], so you have lots of
+control over what kind of pages are translatable.
+
+The `.po` files are not considered as being translatable, so you don't need to
+worry about excluding them explicitly from this [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
+
Internal links
--------------
-One can use the `po_link_to_` option in `ikiwiki.setup` to choose how
+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
If `po_link_to` is unset, or set to `default`, ikiwiki's default
-linking behavior is preserved: `[[page]]` links to the master
+linking behavior is preserved: `\[[destpage]]` links to the master
language's page.
-### Link to negotiated language
+### Link to current language
-If `po_link_to` is set to `negotiated`, `[[page]]` links to the
-negotiated preferred language, *i.e.* `foo/page/`.
+If `po_link_to` is set to `current`, `\[[destpage]]` links to the
+`destpage`'s version written in the current page's language, if
+available, *i.e.*:
-(In)compatibility notes:
+- `foo/destpage/index.LL.html` if `usedirs` is enabled
+- `foo/destpage.LL.html` if `usedirs` is disabled
-- `po_link_to => negotiated` provides no useful behavior if `usedirs`
- is disabled; this option combination is neither implemented nor
- allowed
-- `po_link_to => negotiated` provides no useful behavior if the web
- server does not support Content Negotiation
+### Link to negotiated language
-### Link to current language
+If `po_link_to` is set to `negotiated`, `\[[page]]` links to the
+negotiated preferred language, *i.e.* `foo/page/`.
-If `po_link_to` is set to `current` and the destination page is either
-a translatable page or a translation, `[[page]]` links to the current
-page's language, *i.e.*:
+(In)compatibility notes:
-- `foo/page/index.LL.html` if `usedirs` is enabled
-- `foo/page.LL.html` if `usedirs` is disabled
+- if `usedirs` is disabled, it does not make sense to set `po_link_to`
+ to `negotiated`; this option combination is neither implemented
+ nor allowed.
+- if the web server does not support Content Negotiation, setting
+ `po_link_to` to `negotiated` will produce a unusable website.
Server support
@@ -88,17 +103,16 @@ Server support
Apache
------
-Using `mod_negotiation` makes it really easy to have Apache serve the
-page in the client's preferred language, if available. This is the
-default Debian Apache configuration.
+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.
When `usedirs` is enabled, one has to set `DirectoryIndex index` for
the wiki context.
Setting `DefaultLanguage LL` (replace `LL` with your default MIME
-language) for the wiki context can be needed, to ensure
+language code) for the wiki context can help to ensure
`bla/page/index.en.html` is served as `Content-Language: LL`.
-**FIXME**: is it still needed with the new `.en.html` naming convention?
lighttpd
--------
@@ -109,124 +123,387 @@ lighttpd unfortunately does not support content negotiation.
emulate this?
+Usage
+=====
+
+Templates
+---------
+
+When `po_link_to` is not set to `negotiated`, one should replace some
+occurrences of `BASEURL` with `HOMEPAGEURL` to get correct links to
+the wiki homepage.
+
+The `ISTRANSLATION` and `ISTRANSLATABLE` variables can be used to
+display things only on translatable or translation pages.
+
+### Display page's versions in other languages
+
+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`:
+
+
+
+
+
+ -
+ ">
+
+ ( %)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Additional PageSpec tests
+-------------------------
+
+This plugin enhances the regular [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] syntax with some
+additional tests that are documented [[here|ikiwiki/pagespec/po]].
+
+Automatic PO file update
+------------------------
+
+Committing changes to a "master" page:
+
+1. updates the POT file and the PO files for the "slave" languages;
+ the updated PO files are then put under version control;
+2. triggers a refresh of the corresponding HTML slave pages.
+
+Also, when the plugin has just been enabled, or when a page has just
+been declared as being translatable, the needed POT and PO files are
+created, and the PO files are checked into version control.
+
+Discussion pages and other sub-pages
+------------------------------------
+
+Discussion should happen in the language in which the pages are
+written for real, *i.e.* the "master" one. If discussion pages are
+enabled, "slave" pages therefore link to the "master" page's
+discussion page.
+
+Likewise, "slave" pages are not supposed to have sub-pages;
+[[WikiLinks|wikilink]] that appear on a "slave" page therefore link to
+the master page's sub-pages.
+
+Translating
+-----------
+
+One can edit the PO files using ikiwiki's CGI (a message-by-message
+interface could also be implemented at some point).
+
+If [[tips/untrusted_git_push]] is setup, one can edit the PO files in one's
+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
+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
+* other markup languages have not been tested.
+
+
TODO
====
-Display available translations
-------------------------------
+Security checks
+---------------
-The [[linguas|plugins/contrib/linguas]] plugin has some code that can
-be used as a basis to display the existing translations, and allow to
-navigate between them.
+### Security history
-View translation status
------------------------
+The only past security issues I could find in GNU gettext and po4a
+are:
-One should be able to view some information about the translation
-completeness, either for a given page or for the whole wiki.
+- [CVE-2004-0966](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0966),
+ *i.e.* [Debian bug #278283](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278283):
+ the autopoint and gettextize scripts in the GNU gettext package
+ 1.14 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5
+ through 2.1 and other operating systems, allows local users to
+ overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
+- [CVE-2007-4462](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4462):
+ `lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm` in po4a before 0.32 allows local users to
+ overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the
+ gettextization.failed.po temporary file.
-This should not be too hard using gettext tools. If this is
-implemented as a
-[[HTML::Template|http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist&query=HTML%3A%3ATemplate]]
-loop, a page using it should depend on any "master" and "slave" pages
-whose status is being displayed.
+**FIXME**: check whether this plugin would have been a possible attack
+vector to exploit these vulnerabilities.
-Decide which pages are translatable
------------------------------------
+Depending on my mood, the lack of found security issues can either
+indicate that there are none, or reveal that no-one ever bothered to
+find (and publish) them.
-The subset of "master" pages subject to translation must be
-configurable:
+### PO file features
-- a `[[!translatable ]]` directive, when put on a page, makes it
- translatable
-- to set at once a bunch of pages as being translatable, use this
- [[ikiwiki/directive]] with the `match=PageSpec` argument.
+Can any sort of directives be put in po files that will cause mischief
+(ie, include other files, run commands, crash gettext, whatever)?
-Automatic PO files update
--------------------------
+> No [documented](http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#PO-Files)
+> directive is supposed to do so. [[--intrigeri]]
+
+### Running po4a on untrusted content
+
+Are there any security issues on running po4a on untrusted content?
+
+To say the least, this issue is not well covered, at least publicly:
+
+- the documentation does not talk about it;
+- grep'ing the source code for `security` or `trust` gives no answer.
+
+On the other hand, a po4a developer answered my questions in
+a convincing manner, stating that processing untrusted content was not
+an initial goal, and analysing in detail the possible issues.
+
+#### Already checked
+
+- the core (`Po.pm`, `Transtractor.pm`) should be safe
+- po4a source code was fully checked for other potential symlink
+ attacks, after discovery of one such issue
+- the only external program run by the core is `diff`, in `Po.pm` (in
+ parts of its code we don't use)
+- `Locale::gettext`: only used to display translated error messages
+- Nicolas François "hopes" `DynaLoader` is safe, and has "no reason to
+ think that `Encode` is not safe"
+- Nicolas François has "no reason to think that `Encode::Guess` is not
+ safe". The po plugin nevertheless avoids using it by defining the
+ input charset (`file_in_charset`) before asking `Transtractor` to
+ read any file. NB: this hack depends on po4a internals to stay
+ the same.
+
+##### Locale::Po4a modules
+
+The modules we want to use have to be checked, as not all are safe
+(e.g. the LaTeX module's behaviour is changed by commands included in
+the content); they may use regexps generated from the content.
+
+`Chooser.pm` only loads the plugin we tell it too: currently, this
+means the `Text` module only.
+
+`Text` module (I checked the CVS version):
+
+- it does not run any external program
+- only `do_paragraph()` builds regexp's that expand untrusted
+ variables; they seem safe to me, but someone more expert than me
+ will need to check. Joey?
+
+ > Freaky code, but seems ok due to use of `quotementa`.
+
+#### To be checked
+
+##### Text::WrapI18N
+
+`Text::WrapI18N` can cause DoS (see the
+[Debian bug #470250](http://bugs.debian.org/470250)), but it is
+optional and we do not need the features it provides.
+
+> I proposed a patch based on Joey's to po4a-devel, allowing to fully
+> disable this module's use. When it is merged upstream, we'll need to add
+> `use Locale::Po4a::Common qw(nowrapi18n)` to `po.pm`, before loading
+> any other `Locale::Po4a` module. A versioned dependency may be needed.
+> --[[intrigeri]]
+
+##### Term::ReadKey
+
+`Term::ReadKey` is not a hard dependency in our case, *i.e.* po4a
+works nicely without it. But the po4a Debian package recommends
+`libterm-readkey-perl`, so it will probably be installed on most
+systems using the po plugin.
+
+`Term::ReadKey` has too far reaching implications for us to
+be able to guarantee anything wrt. security.
+
+> The option that disables `Text::WrapI18N` also disables
+> `Term::ReadKey` as a consequence. [[--intrigeri]]
+
+### msgmerge
+
+`refreshpofiles()` runs this external program.
+
+A po4a developer answered he does "not expect any security issues from
+it". I did not manage to crash it with `zzuf`, nor was able to find
+any past security holes.
+
+### msgfmt
+
+`isvalidpo()` runs this external program.
+
+* I could not manage to make it behave badly using zzuf, it exits
+ cleanly when too many errors are detected.
+* I could not find any past security holes.
+
+### Fuzzing input
+
+Test conditions:
+
+- a 21M file containing 100 concatenated copies of all the files in my
+ `/usr/share/common-licenses/`; I had no existing PO file or
+ translated versions at hand, which renders these tests
+ quite incomplete.
+- po4a was the Debian 0.34-2 package; the same tests were also run
+ after replacing the `Text` module with the CVS one (the core was not
+ changed in CVS since 0.34-2 was released), without any significant
+ difference in the results.
+- Perl 5.10.0-16
+
+#### po4a-gettextize
+
+`po4a-gettextize` uses more or less the same po4a features as our
+`refreshpot` function.
+
+Without specifying an input charset, zzuf'ed `po4a-gettextize` quickly
+errors out, complaining it was not able to detect the input charset;
+it leaves no incomplete file on disk.
+
+So I had to pretend the input was in UTF-8, as does the po plugin.
+
+Two ways of crashing were revealed by this command-line:
+
+ zzuf -vc -s 0:100 -r 0.1:0.5 \
+ po4a-gettextize -f text -o markdown -M utf-8 -L utf-8 \
+ -m LICENSES >/dev/null
+
+They are:
+
+ Malformed UTF-8 character (UTF-16 surrogate 0xdcc9) in substitution iterator at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
+ Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
+
+and
+
+ Malformed UTF-8 character (UTF-16 surrogate 0xdcec) in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
+ Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
+
+Perl seems to exit cleanly, and an incomplete PO file is written on
+disk. I not sure whether if this is a bug in Perl or in `Po.pm`.
+
+> It's fairly standard perl behavior when fed malformed utf-8. As long as it doesn't
+> crash ikiwiki, it's probably acceptable. Ikiwiki can do some similar things itself when fed malformed utf-8 (doesn't crash tho) --[[Joey]]
+
+#### po4a-translate
-Committing changes to a "master" page must:
+`po4a-translate` uses more or less the same po4a features as our
+`filter` function.
-1. update the POT file and the PO files for the supported languages,
- before putting them under version control
-2. trigger a refresh of the corresponding HTML slave pages
+Without specifying an input charset, same behaviour as
+`po4a-gettextize`, so let's specify UTF-8 as input charset as of now.
-The former is to be done at a time when:
+ zzuf -cv \
+ po4a-translate -d -f text -o markdown -M utf-8 -L utf-8 \
+ -k 0 -m LICENSES -p LICENSES.fr.po -l test.fr
-- we know which "master" page was modified, and thus, which POT/PO
- files have to be updated: the `needsbuild` hook is the first one to
- run that provides us with the necessary information
-- we can modify the list of pages needing a refresh; this is
- `needsbuild` hook's job
+... prints tons of occurences of the following error, but a complete
+translated document is written (obviously with some weird chars
+inside):
-The latter can be implemented by making any "slave" page depend on the
-corresponding "master" page. The `add_depends` function can achieve
-this, if used in a **FIXME** hook.
+ Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 854.
+ Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 840.
+ Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1002.
-UI consistency: rename "Edit" button on slave pages
----------------------------------------------------
+While:
-It may be surprising to some, after having pressed *Edit* on a wiki
-page, to end up editing a strange looking PO file. The *Edit* button
-displayed on "slave" pages must therefore be renamed *Improve
-translation* .
+ zzuf -cv -s 0:10 -r 0.001:0.3 \
+ po4a-translate -d -f text -o markdown -M utf-8 -L utf-8 \
+ -k 0 -m LICENSES -p LICENSES.fr.po -l test.fr
-Pages selection depending on language
--------------------------------------
+... seems to lose the fight, at the `readpo(LICENSES.fr.po)` step,
+against some kind of infinite loop, deadlock, or any similar beast.
-To improve user navigation in a multi-lingual wiki, site developers
-must be enabled to write:
+The root of this bug lies in `Text::WrapI18N`, see above for
+possible solutions.
- \[[!map pages="dev/* and lang(LL)" feeds="no"]]
+gettext/po4a rough corners
+--------------------------
- \[[!map pages="dev/* and currentlang()" feeds="no"]]
+- fix infinite loop when synchronizing two ikiwiki (when checkouts
+ live in different directories): say bla.fr.po has been updated in
+ repo2; pulling repo2 from repo1 seems to trigger a PO update, that
+ changes bla.fr.po in repo1; then pushing repo1 to repo2 triggers
+ a PO update, that changes bla.fr.po in repo2; etc.; quickly fixed in
+ `629968fc89bced6727981c0a1138072631751fee`, by disabling references
+ in Pot files. Using `Locale::Po4a::write_if_needed` might be
+ a cleaner solution. (warning: this function runs the external
+ `diff` program, have to check security)
+- new translations created in the web interface must get proper
+ charset/encoding gettext metadata, else the next automatic PO update
+ removes any non-ascii chars; possible solution: put such metadata
+ into the Pot file, and let it propagate; should be fixed in
+ `773de05a7a1ee68d2bed173367cf5e716884945a`, time will tell.
-Translation quality assurance
------------------------------
+Better links
+------------
-Modifying a PO file via the CGI must only be allowed if the new
-version is a valid PO file. As a bonus, check that it provides a more
-complete translation than the existing one.
+### Page title in links
-A new `cansave` type of hook would be needed to implement this.
+Using 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.
-Note: committing to the underlying repository is a way to bypass
-this check.
+Robustness tests
+----------------
-Translating online
-------------------
+### Enabling/disabling the plugin
-As PO is a wiki page type, we already have an online PO editor, that
-is ikiwiki's CGI.
+- enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set
+- enabling the plugin without `po_translatable_pages` set: **OK**
+- disabling the plugin: **OK**
-A message-by-message interface could also be implemented at some
-point; a nice way to do offline translation work (without VCS access)
-still has to be offered, though.
+### Changing the plugin config
-Translating offline without VCS access
---------------------------------------
+- 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)
-The following workflow should be made possible for translators without
-VCS access who need to edit the PO files in another editor than a web
-browser:
+### Creating/deleting/renaming pages
-- download the page's PO file
-- use any PO editor to update the translation
-- upload the updated PO file
+All cases of master/slave page creation/deletion/rename, both via RCS
+and via CGI, have been tested.
-Implementation note: a generic mechanism to upload a page's source is
-needed: it's only an alternative way to allow saving a the modified
-page's source with the CGI.
+### Misc
-### Short-term workflow
+- general test with `usedirs` disabled: **OK**
+- general test with `indexpages` enabled
+- general test with `po_link_to=default`
-A possible workaround is:
+Documentation
+-------------
-- pretend to edit the PO file online
-- copy the PO file content from the textarea
-- cancel the edit
-- paste the content into a local file.
-- edit the local file in any PO editor
-- pretend to edit the PO file online
-- paste the modified local file's content into the edit textarea
-- save
+Maybe write separate documentation depending on the people it targets:
+translators, wiki administrators, hackers. This plugin may be complex
+enough to deserve this.