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@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ lighttpd
--------
Recent versions of lighttpd should be able to use
-`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translatted pages to be served.
+`$HTTP["language"]` to configure the translated pages to be served.
See [Lighttpd Issue](http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1119)
@@ -213,16 +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
@@ -266,6 +266,37 @@ to an array to support this. (If twere done, twere best done quickly.)
> 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
---------