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diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
index 57f04a476094739efe23d9d04d6ef791699dfc1b..5f713044ff879ca9fe799b98e4708f4a0981455d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ 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
@@ -254,26 +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.
 
-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]] 
-
-> Done in my po branch, preserving backward compatibility. Please
-> review :) --[[intrigeri]]
-
->> Right, well my immediate concern is that using an array to hold
->> hash-like pairs is not very clear to the user. It will be displayed
->> in a confusing way by websetup; dumping a setup file will probably
->> also cause it to be formatted in a confusing way. And the code
->> seems to assume that the array length is even, and probably blows
->> up if it is not.. and the value is marked safe so websetup can be
->> used to modify it and break that way too. --[[Joey]] 
-
 Pagespecs
 ---------
 
@@ -284,6 +264,11 @@ and seems generally not wanted.
 (OTOH, you do want to match translated pages by
 default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]]
 
+> 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]]
+
 Edit links on untranslated pages
 --------------------------------
 
@@ -324,10 +309,20 @@ 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 is fixed in my po branch.
+> * 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]]
+
 Ugly messages with empty files
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