X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/4ce93af516360a223016681961481f51a3ce81f7..4cf185e781a5f94373b30ec9a0e10dfb626b6d86:/doc/plugins/po.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 9273da399..6b2a30786 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ Supported languages `po_slave_languages` is used to set the list of supported "slave" languages, such as: - po_slave_languages => { 'fr' => 'Français', + po_slave_languages => [ 'fr' => 'Français', 'es' => 'Español', 'de' => 'Deutsch', - } + ] Decide which pages are translatable ----------------------------------- @@ -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 +`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translatted pages to be served. -**FIXME**: does `mod_magnet` provide the functionality needed to - emulate this? +See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119) +TODO: Example Usage ===== @@ -212,16 +213,16 @@ preferred `$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 @@ -253,53 +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. -Self links ----------- - -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]] - -> The commit 0113c69d4fb in my po branch might fix this. --[[intrigeri]] - -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]] - -Duplicate %links ? ------------------- - -I notice code in the scan hook that seems to assume -that %links will accumulate duplicate links for a page. -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]] - -> 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 --------- @@ -327,18 +281,6 @@ 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]] -recentchanges links to po files -------------------------------- - -When a po file is changed, the recentchanges page shows a link such as -"sandbox.es". But, clicking on it goes to the English (or negotiated -language) version of the page. It would be better in this one case if -the link went direct to the translated version of the page. --[[Joey]] - -> The (untested) commit 496e8523c670 in my po branch might fix this... -> or at least, I believe, put someone on the right track. -> --[[intrigeri]] - Double commits of po files -------------------------- @@ -367,6 +309,9 @@ 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 -------------