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From [[Recai]]:

Here is my initial work on ikiwiki l10n infrastructure (I'm sending it before finalizing, there may be errors).

I've revised the patches (tested OK):

  • $config{lang} patch:

    http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/ikiwiki-lang.diff

    • Support for CGI::FormBuilder.
    • Modify Makefile.PL for l10n.
  • l10n infrastructure from Koha project. (This patch must be applied with '-p1', also, it needs a 'chmod +x l10n/*.pl' after patching.)

    • Leave templates dir untouched, use a temporary translations directory instead.

    • Fix Makefile (it failed to update templates).

      http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/ikiwiki-l10n.diff

However...

There are two places in IkiWiki, subject to localization: HTML::Template

Unfortunately this is not correct. There a few (?) exceptional places, for example button texts in CGI.pm:

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

fine. Also a final note, I haven't examined the quality of generated templates yet.

Looks like, tmpl_process3 cannot preserve line breaks in template files. For example, it processed the following template:

Someone[1], possibly you, requested that you be emailed the password for

user <TMPL_VAR USER_NAME> on <TMPL_VAR WIKINAME>[2].

The password is: <TMPL_VAR USER_PASSWORD>

--
ikiwiki

[1] The user requesting the password was at IP address <TMPL_VAR

REMOTE_ADDR> [2] Located at <TMPL_VAR WIKIURL>

as (in Turkish):

Birisi[1], ki muhtemelen bu sizsiniz, <TMPL_VAR WIKINAME>[2] üzerindeki <TMPL_VAR USER_NAME> kullanıcısına ait parolanın epostalanması isteğinde bulundu. Parola: <TMPL_VAR USER_PASSWORD> -- ikiwiki [1] Parolayı isteyen kullanıcının ait IP adresi: <TMPL_VAR REMOTE_ADDR>[2] <TMPL_VAR WIKIURL>


Unfortunately this is not correct. There a few (?) exceptional places, for example button texts in CGI.pm:

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

Hmm, I've thought on this issue. Using Locale::gettext seems to be the natural solution. But this would need to create another po file and also, ikiwiki would depend another Perl module. Kinda overkill...

I have another idea... What about to create another (flat) template file for this sort of strings? Something like strings.tmpl with the content:

Save Page, Preview, Cancel

or we could categorize these strings in some variables (',' is the delimiter for this code snippet):

<TMPL_IF NAME="BUTTONS">
Save Page, Preview, Cancel
</TMPL_IF>

and then (preferably in a separate wrapper function in CGI.pm):

 my $template=template("strings.tmpl");
 $template->param("BUTTONS", 1);
 my @buttons=split(/\s*,\s*/, $template->output);

You get the idea... I've tried this method. All in one po file, kind of ugly, but it really works.

fine. Also a final note, I haven't examined the quality of generated templates yet.

Looks like, tmpl_process3 cannot preserve line breaks in template files. For example, it processed the following template:

This could be easily worked around in tmpl_process3, but I wouldn't like to maintain a separate utility.