From [[Recai]]: > Here is my initial work on ikiwiki l10n infrastructure (I'm sending it > before finalizing, there may be errors). I've revised the patches (tested OK): - $config{lang} patch: http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/ikiwiki-lang.diff + Support for CGI::FormBuilder. + Modify Makefile.PL for l10n. - l10n infrastructure from Koha project. (This patch must be applied with '-p1', also, it needs a 'chmod +x l10n/*.pl' after patching.) + Leave templates dir untouched, use a temporary translations directory instead. + Fix Makefile (it failed to update templates). http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/ikiwiki-l10n.diff However... > There are two places in IkiWiki, subject to localization: HTML::Template Unfortunately this is not correct. There a few (?) exceptional places, for example button texts in CGI.pm: my @buttons=("Save Page", "Preview", "Cancel"); > fine. Also a final note, I haven't examined the quality of generated > templates yet. Looks like, tmpl_process3 cannot preserve line breaks in template files. For example, it processed the following template: Someone[1], possibly you, requested that you be emailed the password for user on [2]. The password is: -- ikiwiki [1] The user requesting the password was at IP address [2] Located at as (in Turkish): Birisi[1], ki muhtemelen bu sizsiniz, [2] üzerindeki kullanıcısına ait parolanın epostalanması isteğinde bulundu. Parola: -- ikiwiki [1] Parolayı isteyen kullanıcının ait IP adresi: [2] ---- > Unfortunately this is not correct. There a few (?) exceptional places, for > example button texts in CGI.pm: > > my @buttons=("Save Page", "Preview", "Cancel"); Hmm, I've thought on this issue. Using Locale::gettext seems to be the natural solution. But this would need to create another po file and also, ikiwiki would depend another Perl module. Kinda overkill... I have another idea... What about to create another (flat) template file for this sort of strings? Something like strings.tmpl with the content: Save Page, Preview, Cancel or we could categorize these strings in some variables (',' is the delimiter for this code snippet): Save Page, Preview, Cancel and then (preferably in a separate wrapper function in CGI.pm): my $template=template("strings.tmpl"); $template->param("BUTTONS", 1); my @buttons=split(/\s*,\s*/, $template->output); You get the idea... I've tried this method. All in one po file, kind of ugly, but it _really_ works. > > fine. Also a final note, I haven't examined the quality of generated > > templates yet. > > Looks like, tmpl_process3 cannot preserve line breaks in template files. > For example, it processed the following template: This could be easily worked around in tmpl_process3, but I wouldn't like to maintain a separate utility.