Hello All, "Simply unpack the archive" (i18n.tgz) as suggested in "Internationalizations" is not what I consider suitable, there are too many drawbacks.
A short <g> summary what I found in the first hours trying to make PmWiki "internationalized"... The archive is currently unusable for Windows systems since it contains PmWikiPtBr.Sandbox and PmWikiPtBr.SandBox. I already removed SandBox from pmwiki.org but couldn't correct the links in Sandbox because something is blocked. The filenames contain 8 bit characters which I usually don't want to have on my PC. Is it really the intention to save pages with arbitrary 8 bit characters in filenames, unencoded? That's ugly, IMNSHO. On linux, "ls" shows only question marks, midnight commander fails also. On Windows, it doesn't look better. 7Zip and Powerarchiver didn't even extract the correct names - Cygwin's tar did the job finally. IMO the i18n download should be split in languages. Most people don't want to have all translations. It's larger than PmWiki itself... When is the archive updated? The current version is dated 2006-08-07. How are version dependencies (PmWiki version <-> i18n version) handled? Who selects which pages go to the i18n distribution? A quick look showed nonsense pages in the PmWikiDe group like Glück, Heute, Meineseite, AttachJojobaöl, TEST... http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWikiDe/StandDer%dcbersetzung is out of sync with the archive: 30 files are missing in the archive, and 32 files are in the archive but not mentioned in the list. I will try to fix this, but for the moment I only save the information I collected on the "StandDerÜbersetzung" page. After all, I would be happy with a German user interface for writers, but stay with the English pages for administration and more advanced topics. There certainly is a tradeoff between comfort and accuracy, so from a certain level, I would prefer the English documentation source. The German "StandDerÜbersetzung" page already has a flag for the audience (user, admin, system administration), what about moving this information to page text variables? Oliver -- Oliver Betz, Muenchen _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
