X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/eca2dbe67f7c2ce9f5a53765ea73227fdad0ad28..c99d26030e6ddd7a21932e98e40a8df7d896886d:/doc/plugins/po.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 36b44cd7f..57f04a476 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 ----------------------------------- @@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ Apache Using Apache `mod_negotiation` makes it really easy to have Apache serve any page in the client's preferred language, if available. -This is the default Debian Apache configuration. + +Add 'Options MultiViews' to the wiki directory's configuration in Apache. When `usedirs` is enabled, one has to set `DirectoryIndex index` for the wiki context. @@ -123,14 +124,17 @@ Setting `DefaultLanguage LL` (replace `LL` with your default MIME language code) for the wiki context can help to ensure `bla/page/index.en.html` is served as `Content-Language: LL`. +For details, see [Apache's documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/content-negotiation.html). + lighttpd -------- -lighttpd unfortunately does not support content negotiation. +Recent versions of lighttpd should be able to use +`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translated pages to be served. -**FIXME**: does `mod_magnet` provide the functionality needed to - emulate this? +See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119) +TODO: Example Usage ===== @@ -209,16 +213,16 @@ preferred `$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 @@ -248,7 +252,7 @@ ea753782b222bf4ba2fb4683b6363afdd9055b64, which should be reverted once [[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch is merged. An integration branch, called `meta-po`, merges [[intrigeri]]'s `po` -and `meta` branches, and thus has thise additional features. +and `meta` branches, and thus has this additional features. Language display order ---------------------- @@ -259,15 +263,91 @@ 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 ? ------------------- +> 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 +--------- + +I was suprised that, when using the map directive, a pagespec of "*" +listed all the translated pages as well as regular pages. That can +make a big difference to an existing wiki when po is turned on, +and seems generally not wanted. +(OTOH, you do want to match translated pages by +default when locking pages.) --[[Joey]] + +Edit links on untranslated pages +-------------------------------- -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? +If a page is not translated yet, the "translated" version of it +displays wikilinks to other, existing (but not yet translated?) +pages as edit links, as if those pages do not exist. + +That's really confusing, especially as clicking such a link +brings up an edit form to create a new, english page. + +This is with po_link_to=current or negotiated. With default, it doesn't +happen.. + +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 +-------------------------- + +When adding a new english page, the po files are created, committed, +and then committed again. The second commit makes this change: + + -"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n" + -"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING" + +"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" + +"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n" + +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 +------------------------- + +If a translated page contains a directive, it may expand to some english +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 -------------