X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ae474d8e14631ff519ed7d54bb64eaa0538f56d9..6659d78aa2e3c66c9beadf180aa18438db0f40e5:/doc/plugins/po.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 756012890..f3b70b5f7 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Supported languages languages, such as: po_slave_languages => { 'fr' => 'Français', - 'es' => 'Castellano', + 'es' => 'Español', 'de' => 'Deutsch', } @@ -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 -------- @@ -150,24 +153,9 @@ 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`: - - -
- -
- - -The following variables are available inside the loop (for every page in): +An example of its use can be found in the default +`templates/page.tmpl`. In case you want to customize it, the following +variables are available inside the loop (for every page in): * `URL` - url to the page * `CODE` - two-letters language code @@ -178,15 +166,8 @@ The following variables are available inside the loop (for every page in): ### Display the current translation status The `PERCENTTRANSLATED` variable is set to the translation -completeness, expressed in percent, on "slave" pages. - -One can use it this way: - - -
- -
- +completeness, expressed in percent, on "slave" pages. It is used by +the default `templates/page.tmpl`. Additional PageSpec tests ------------------------- @@ -231,8 +212,8 @@ 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 @@ -246,7 +227,7 @@ 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 @@ -270,43 +251,74 @@ 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 thise additional features. +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 -------------