Merge branch 'master' of git://git.ikiwiki.info

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@@ -266,6 +266,41 @@ to an array to support this. (If twere done, twere best done quickly.)
 > 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]] 
+
+>>> I have added a sanity check for the even array problem. This was
+>>> the easy part.
+>>>
+>>> About the hash-like vs. dump and websetup issue,
+>>> I can think of a few solutions:
+>>>
+>>> - keep the current hash-like pairs and unmark this setting as safe
+>>>   for websetup: this does not solve the dump setup issue, though;
+>>> - replace the array of pairs with an array of
+>>>   "LANGUAGECODE|LANGUAGENAME" elements, using a pipe or whatever
+>>>   separator seems adequate;
+>>> - add support for ordered hashes to `$config`, websetup and
+>>>   dumpsetup, using Tie-IxHash or any similar module;
+>>> - replace the array of hash-like pairs with an array of real
+>>>   pairs, such as `[ ['de', 'Deutsch'], ['fr', 'Français'] ]`; this
+>>>   brings once again the need for `$config` to support arrays of
+>>>   arrays, which I have already implemented in my mirrorlist branch
+>>>   (see [[todo/mirrorlist_with_per-mirror_usedirs_settings]] for
+>>>   details).
+>>>
+>>> Joey, which of these solutions do you prefer? Or another one?
+>>> I tend to prefer the last one. --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>>>> I prefer the pipe separator, I think. I'm concerned that there is 
+>>>> no way to really sanely represent complex data structures in web
+>>>> setup. --[[Joey]]
+
 Pagespecs
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@@ -320,6 +355,16 @@ update. --[[Joey]]
 > * 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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