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A lot of strings in ikiwiki are hardcoded and not taken for locales resources through gettext. This is bad because ikiwiki is thus difficult to spread for non-english users.

I mean that, for instance in CGI.pm, line like:

my @buttons=("Save Page", "Preview", "Cancel");

should be written as

my @buttons=(gettext("Save Page"), gettext("Preview"), gettext("Cancel"));

In standards templates things seems wrongly written too. For instance in page.tmpl line like:

<li><a href="<TMPL_VAR EDITURL>" rel="nofollow">Edit</a></li>

should be written as

<li><a href="<TMPL_VAR EDITURL>" rel="nofollow"><TMPL_VAR EDITURL_TEXT</a></li>

with EDITURL_TEXT variable initialized in Render.pm through a gettext call.

Am I wrong ?

If not I can spend some time preparing patches for such corrections if it can help.

-- [[/users/bbb]]