https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41716
--- Comment #9 from Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> --- A few notes from IRC: [09:59] <gwicke> marktraceur: I browsed the LanguageConverter source a bit [09:59] <gwicke> there is an autoConvert method that simply converts all text based on a dictionary lookup [10:00] <gwicke> it only excludes markup and script/code blocks [10:00] <gwicke> the default search language for Chinese seems to be zh-hans (simplified) [10:01] <gwicke> am not sure when the special conversion syntax is used in practice [10:03] --> tewwy has joined this channel (~tychay@wikimedia/Tychay). [10:03] <gwicke> conversion is restricted to those blocks when using convert() and convertTo() [10:03] <gwicke> plus special conversion for link targets and headings [10:04] <gwicke> the conversion itself is performed using autoConvert (the dictionary-based method) [10:06] * cscott is reading backlog [10:07] <cscott> yeah, i mentioned getting minority-language buy-in in the meeting yesterday, thinking specifically of how hard it's been to get i18n feedback [10:07] --> HaeB has joined this channel (~quassel@wikipedia/HochaufeinemBaum). [10:08] <cscott> this languageconverter thing is changing simplified chinese to traditional, and vice-versa? ie, mainland-to-taiwan and back? [10:13] <gwicke> cscott: there are four variants for Chinese I think [10:13] <gwicke> Serbian and some other languages have variants too [10:14] <gwicke> marktraceur: so my reading is that normally convert() is used, which only converts marked-up blocks (-{ }-) [10:15] <gwicke> except for search, which uses autoconvert directly [10:16] <gwicke> the conversion is also lossy, but less ambiguous when converting from traditional to simplified for example [10:16] <gwicke> now the question is how we should represent all this in the DOM [10:20] *** edsanders|away is now known as edsanders. [10:20] <gwicke> on one hand it would be nice to abstract the issue, but with the conversion being lossy that does not seem to be possible without preserving the original (potentially mixed-variant) text -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
