On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 23:23 +1000, Tao Wang wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Murray Cumming <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 02:54 +1000, Tao Wang wrote: > >> There are 3 documents in gtkmm. Based on priority: > >> 1) the first one is the gtkmm website. This is beginning of > >> everything. So, it's more important than others. So, it should be > >> treated as a document. > > > > The website is very simple HTML, using Server Side Includes to avoid > > some repetive HTML. I'd welcome suggestions for making it translatable, > > though it would have to still be simple. I have no interest in > > maintaining a CMS. > > > > [ POT generation ] > > It's better using pot than copy and modify pages for each language. > Because it is much easier for keeping consistent of different > language. If translator didn't update in time, the original English > string will be shown, other than shown the old information. > > I don't know whether the website is using the same way of DocBook xml > to generate the html and ssi.
It is not. It's just HTML. (git) patches are welcome, if you'd like to try: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnomemm-website/tree/ > If it is, it would easier to generate > .pot file by xml2po, and using translated po file to generated a set > of html. If not, you can use gettext function in php to do the same > thing. Just simply wrap each readable strings to <?php echo _("Welcome > to gtkmm")?>, and then gettext can extract the strings to form .pot > file. > > [ Available for Translators ] > > And then you can post the .pot file to l10n.gnome.org or > translationproject.org as "gtkmm-site", so translators will aware > that, and can translate it. > > [ URL ] > > Visit http://www.gtkmm.org, the site will automatically recognize > user's locale, and if the language is available, then redirect to the > language's page. Otherwise, the default language will be used. > > Visit http://www.gtkmm.org/{lang}, such as http://www.gtkmm.org/zh_CN, > will display the specified language pages. > > If you are using php+gettext solution, the implementation is very > simple. I would like to avoid using PHP, so I don't have to worry about security or any programming in the website at all. People will say it's simple, but it's never simple enough. > Just add a parameter to the link, such as > http://www.gtkmm.org/index.php?lang=zh_CN, and then in the php, set > the locale to "zh_CN" as the link specified, and then gettext will > automatically fetch corresponding string from zh_CN.mo file. So, it's > actually not necessary create a set of pages for each locale. > > [ Interface ] > > For the interface. Based on gtkmm website, right top corner is empty, > so you can put a dropdown list, or a list of flags, or a list of > languages names, to let user select the language. And the left bottom > corner is empty too, you can put a languages list above "Other > Resources". I don't like the interface for choosing language in > "http://library.gnome.org/devel/";, because there are too many > languages, so the list is too long for choose. In such case, a matrix > of language flags will be much helpful for language choosing. So, at > the beginning, a list of language is ok, since their is not so many > languages available. There are no language flags. There are only country flags. That's why we don't use them. It's particularly problematic when there are territorial disputes. -- [email protected] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
