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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/po.mdwn | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index e1cb0b5b9..f28c8b188 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -271,7 +271,22 @@ the file is present in srcdir. Problem with this is that it precludes using po to translate the basewiki (work which is well under way for Danish BTW), -since the translated po files cannot really be used. --[[Joey]] +since the translated po files cannot really be used. + +A further problem comes if one wants to use a non-English language as the +`po_master_language`. It would be good to get a translated +basewiki, taking po files from the underlay and using them as the primary +page sources, but this plugin doesn't yet support that. + +And, maybe it shouldn't? A user would not expect to see a po file when +editing the index page of their wiki, just because they're using a +different language. Instead, we might want to build localized .mdwn files +for the basewiki, and then ikiwiki would just use that translated underlay. +The when the user edits index, they get a nice mdwn file to start from. + +So, we seem to have two cases, in one po files from the underlay should be +used, in the other not. Hmm. Support both? +--[[Joey]] Duplicate %links ? ------------------ |