X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fplugins%2Fpo.mdwn;h=ab096b2ac61872a2f7f5e0f514012dc18d5a7cf7;hb=927558ee444a12774c579bc6acf76f8e040c5229;hp=45630d763c50d77696025af80ca7eb24e7b85d92;hpb=7bd7e78e4a7d31c460909776057687e0e29dba12;p=ikiwiki.git diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 45630d763..ab096b2ac 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 @@ -253,53 +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]] - -> The commit 0113c69d4fb in my po branch might fix this. --[[intrigeri]] - -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]] - -> It would replace it. The only problematic case is when another -> plugin has its own reasons, in its `scan` hook, to add a page -> that is already there to `$links{$page}`. This other plugin's -> effect might then be changed by po's `scan` hook... which could -> be either good (better overall l10n) or bad (break the other -> plugin's goal). --[[intrigeri]] - -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]] - -> I suggest changing `Render.pm`, line 115, to replace the `$page eq 'index'` -> test with a predicate call such as isindexpage($page). Such a predicate -> function could then be overriden by the po plugin. --[[intrigeri]] - Pagespecs --------- @@ -310,8 +264,13 @@ and seems generally not wanted. (OTOH, you do want to match translated pages by default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]] -Edit links on untranslated pages --------------------------------- +> 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]] + +l10n wiki misconfiguration +-------------------------- If a page is not translated yet, the "translated" version of it displays wikilinks to other, existing (but not yet translated?) @@ -327,13 +286,44 @@ 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]] -recentchanges links to po files -------------------------------- - -When a po file is changed, the recentchanges page shows a link such as -"sandbox.es". But, clicking on it goes to the English (or negotiated -language) version of the page. It would be better in this one case if -the link went direct to the translated version of the page. --[[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]] + +>>> Seems not related to the page/string translation status: the 0% +>>> translated Spanish version has the correct link, just like the +>>> Dansk version => I'm changing the bug title accordingly. +>>> +>>> I tested forcing the sv html page to be rebuilt by translating a +>>> string in it, it did not fix the bug. I did the same for the +>>> Spanish page, it did not introduce the bug. So this is really +>>> weird. +>>> +>>> The smiley underlay seems to be the only place where the wrong +>>> thing happens: the basewiki underlay has similar examples +>>> that do not exhibit this bug. An underlay linking to another might +>>> be necessary to reproduce it. Going to dig deeper. --[[intrigeri]] + +>>>> After a few hours lost in the Perl debugger, I think I have found +>>>> the root cause of the problem: in l10n wiki's configured +>>>> `underlaydir`, the basewiki is present in every slave language +>>>> that is enabled for this wiki *but* Swedish. With such a +>>>> configuration, the `ikiwiki/wikilink` page indeed does not exist +>>>> in Swedish language: no `ikiwiki/wikilink.sv.po` can be found +>>>> where ikiwiki is looking. Have a look to +>>>> , the basewiki is not +>>>> available in Swedish language on this wiki. So this is not a po +>>>> bug, but a configuration or directories layout issue. This is +>>>> solved by adding the Swedish basewiki to the underlay dir, which +>>>> is I guess not a possibility in the l10n wiki context. I guess +>>>> this could be solved by adding `SRCDIR/basewiki` as an underlay +>>>> to your l10n wiki configuration, possibly using the +>>>> `add_underlays` configuration directive. --[[intrigeri]] Double commits of po files -------------------------- @@ -349,11 +339,50 @@ 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]] + +> I could reproduce this bug at some point during the merge of a buggy +> version of my ordered slave languages patch, but I cannot anymore. +> Could you please try again? --[[intrigeri]] + 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]] + +Remove po/pot files when disabling the po plugin? +------------------------------------------------- + +ikiwiki now has a `disable` hook. Should the po plugin remove the po +files from the source repository when it has been disabled? + +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 -------------