cherry-picked fix for recentchanges links

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / po.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
index 5016f1037dac7329cda77de1b28f5a94895201af..2e32d78fd60843e1ad3ec1fbf06da81e0f2c4b77 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -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
 --------
 
@@ -248,7 +251,7 @@ 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.
 
 Self links
 ----------
@@ -257,7 +260,14 @@ 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]] 
+good reason for that to be done? --[[Joey]]
+
+> The commit 0113c69d4fb in my po branch might fix this. --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>> It may fix it in passing, but shouldn't it also be fixed for the other
+>> `po_link_to` styles? (Also, if `mybestlink` is going to always 
+>> just return `bestlink` in this case, there seems no reason to inject
+>> it.) --[[Joey]]
 
 Language display order
 ----------------------
@@ -277,12 +287,23 @@ 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]] 
+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
 ---------
@@ -294,6 +315,51 @@ and seems generally not wanted.
 (OTOH, you do want to match translated pages by
 default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]]
 
+Edit links on untranslated pages
+--------------------------------
+
+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. 
+
+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.. 
+
+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]] 
+
+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
+-------------------------
+
+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.
+
 Documentation
 -------------