X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/18e4fa65399f2a21bd943b0e62b81a100f941d44..51ac511369e7dd0d22f8e5056f6292d64b68a903:/doc/plugins/po.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 57459c1ef..2dc5ffdc8 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -129,11 +129,12 @@ For details, see [Apache's documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/conte lighttpd -------- -lighttpd unfortunately does not support content negotiation. +Recent versions of lighttpd should be able to use +`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translated pages to be served. -**FIXME**: does `mod_magnet` provide the functionality needed to - emulate this? +See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119) +TODO: Example Usage ===== @@ -212,16 +213,16 @@ preferred `$EDITOR`, without needing to be online. Markup languages support ------------------------ -[[Markdown|mdwn]] is well supported. Some other markup languages supported -by ikiwiki mostly work, but some pieces of syntax are not rendered -correctly on the slave pages: +[[Markdown|mdwn]] and [[html]] are well supported. Some other markup +languages supported by ikiwiki mostly work, but some pieces of syntax +are not rendered correctly on the slave pages: * [[reStructuredText|rst]]: anonymous hyperlinks and internal cross-references * [[wikitext]]: conversion of newlines to paragraphs * [[creole]]: verbatim text is wrapped, tables are broken -* [[html]] and LaTeX: not supported yet; the dedicated po4a modules - could be used to support them, but they would need a security audit +* LaTeX: not supported yet; the dedicated po4a module + could be used to support it, but it would need a security audit * other markup languages have not been tested. Security @@ -262,6 +263,40 @@ 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]] + +>>> 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]] + Pagespecs --------- @@ -289,6 +324,15 @@ 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]] +> Any simple testcase to reproduce it, please? I've never seen this +> happen yet. --[[intrigeri]] + +>> Sure, go here +>> (Currently 0% translateed) and see the 'WikiLink' link at the bottom, +>> which goes to +>> Compare with eg, the 100% translated Dansk version, where +>> the WikiLink link links to the English WikiLink page. --[[Joey]] + Double commits of po files -------------------------- @@ -303,11 +347,18 @@ 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 ENCODING\n part is due to an inconsistency in po4a, which +> I've just send a patch for. --[[intrigeri]] + Ugly messages with empty files ------------------------------ If there are empty .mdwn files, the po plugin displays some ugly messages. +> This is due to a bug in po4a (not checking definedness of a +> variable). One-liner patch sent. --[[intrigeri]] + Translation of directives ------------------------- @@ -317,6 +368,9 @@ 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. +(We also will need this in order to use translated templates, when they are +available.) + Documentation -------------