Re: translations on packages.debian.org
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:14:53PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > > I start to patch packages.debian.org to supporting of translated
> > > descriptions again.
> > >
> > > I am not ready yet, but maybe you are interested.
> > >
> > > Go to http://ddtp.debian.org/packages.debina.org/ and you will find all
> > > pages with content negotiation like the debian homepage.
> > >
> > > Is this start Ok or have you some improvements or comments?
> >
> > Well, it would help if you had *.en.html files everywhere, combined with
> > actual German etc translations for index.*.html files :)
>
> Miss I some *.en.html files? Maybe I don't understand this, sorry?!
The English files. I get "406 Not Acceptable" all the time on your version.
> > I wonder how can we organize translating this. Probably with a new module in
> > the webwml cvsroot, to which we could commit the Perl stuff, too...
> >
> > Oh, and you can use the translated navigation bar images, too, just add the
> > language code in the file like for the HTML files, e.g. getting.de.gif.
>
> Yes. This pages are only the first step. The next is to translate all
> the 'static' text in the pages.
>
> Should I use a text.$lang.pl file (like htmlscripts/sections.pl) or is
> gettext better?
Either should work...
> And we have a problem with the search cgi... The Output from
> http://ddtp.debian.org/cgi-bin/packages.debian.org/search_packages.pl?keywords=apache&searchon=all&subword=1&version=stable&release=all
> is not very nice. And now I add only six languages...
The search CGI could simply display initially in English, and then link to
files where content negotiation would serve the translated version.
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