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diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index 2fbf67016..04420c115 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -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. @@ -123,6 +124,8 @@ 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 -------- @@ -248,16 +251,7 @@ 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. - -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]] +and `meta` branches, and thus has this additional features. Language display order ---------------------- @@ -268,15 +262,67 @@ 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 ? ------------------- +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]] -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? +Edit links on untranslated pages +-------------------------------- + +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]] +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]] + +Ugly messages with empty files +------------------------------ + +If there are empty .mdwn files, the po plugin displays some ugly messages. + +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. + +2 test suite failures +-------------------- + +t/po is currently failing tests 57 and 59 (and I would like to release +soon..) --[[Joey]] + Documentation ------------- |