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-A lot of strings in ikiwiki are hardcoded and not taken for locales resources through gettext. This is bad because ikiwiki is thus difficult to spread for non-english users.
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-I mean that, for instance in CGI.pm, line like:
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-`my @buttons=("Save Page", "Preview", "Cancel");`
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-should be written as
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-`my @buttons=(gettext("Save Page"), gettext("Preview"), gettext("Cancel"));`
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-> Yes, these need to be fixed. But note that the localised texts come back
-> into ikiwiki and are used in various places, including plugins.
-> Including, possibly, third-party plugins. So localising the buttons would
-> seem to require converting from the translations back into the C locale
-> when the form is posted. --[[Joey]]
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->> Wouldn't it be more easy to change all calls to the corrects ones (including in plugins) ?
->> For instance in the same file (CGI.pm): `elsif ($form->submitted eq gettext("Save Page")) {`.
->> That way no conversion to the C locale is needed.
->> gettext use should just be publicized in documentation (at least in [[plugins/write]]). --[[bbb]]
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->>> It would be easy, but it could break third-party plugins that hardcode
->>> the english strings. It's also probably less efficient to run gettext
->>> over and over. --[[Joey]]
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-In standards templates things seems wrongly written too. For instance in page.tmpl line like:
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-`<li><a href="<TMPL_VAR EDITURL>" rel="nofollow">Edit</a></li>`
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-should be written as
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-`<li><a href="<TMPL_VAR EDITURL>" rel="nofollow"><TMPL_VAR EDITURL_TEXT</a></li>`
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-with EDITURL_TEXT variable initialized in Render.pm through a gettext call. 
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-Am I wrong ?
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-> No, that's not a sane way to localise the templates. The templates can be
-> translated by making a copy and modifying it, or by using a tool to
-> generate .mo files from the templates, and generate translated templates
-> from .po files. (See [[todo/l10n]] for one attempt.) But pushing the
-> localisation of random strings in the templates through the ikiwiki
-> program defeats the purpose of having templates at all. --[[Joey]]
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-If not I can spend some time preparing patches for such corrections if it can help.
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--- [[/users/bbb]]