26 Mar
2007
26 Mar
'07
12:48 a.m.
Vincent, Sergui,
So as I understand, the translation process for message resources should be
as follows:
1. Copy AR.properties, add language-specific suffix.
2. Translate messages into specific language.
3. Watch the result, adjust messages as necessary. This is a continuous
process.
4. If some obstacles found, like hardcoded message structure which does not
fit the language, then
a) Create JIRA issue
b) Preferably submit a patch
(5). Contribute translation back to XWiki to ensure at least minimal support
& synchronization with other bundles
Item 5 is just a guess as I have no idea about how XWiki deals with
contributions of that kind.
Speaking about removal of unused keys, I believe it can be done only by
experienced XWiki developer.
Doing that without a good knowledge of all possible resource usage patterns
inevitably leads to a broken areas in application. At least that's what I've
seen before.
On 3/26/07, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu.dumitriu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/25/07, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
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Best regards,
Pavel
On Mar 24, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Pavel wrote:
Indeed, with a minor observation that a few entries in AR_en.properties
override the ones in AR.properties.
1) When a key is missing it's looked for in
Greetings,
There is a number of ApplicationResources_xx.properties in XWiki
and it looks like all of them are different (contain different set
of keys).
Both ApplicationResources.properties and
ApplicationResources_en.properties are in english and are mostly
identical except for ~70 missing keys in _en file.
Given that, I have two questions:
1. What is the "most supported" message resources file?
ApplicationResources.properties AppliationResources.properties . This allows any
language to work even
if there are missing keys.
2) I don't know why we have a AppplicationResources_en.properties as
it's supposed to be the same as ApplicationResources.properties. IMO
we should remove it
In theory, if somebody decides to deploy a wiki mainly used in russian,
for example, he could replace AR.properties with AR_ru.properties as the
default resource bundle. The, in order for the english translation to work,
AR_en.properties should exist.
However, maintaining two resource files is not needed, as if someone
knows how to replace AR.properties, he should know how to create the
backup AR_en.properties.
In an ideal world (to be read: a world without Microsoft and Windows)
AR.props should be a symlink to the actual language file.
So, +1 for removing AR_en.properties.
2. Are all messages from .properties used in
XWiki, or some are
Almost all messages are used, but in different skins. One thing we can do
to ease the work would be to copy the current resource files into the dodo
skin directory, and declare it as deprecated, so that we can move on with
the new skins.
redundant?
It's possible that some messages are no longer used. If the latter, are there plans for removal of
unnecessary keys for
Is there a JIRA issue for this? I remember seeing this, but I don't know
if it was in a mail only, or on JIRA, too.
Thanks
1.0 release?
Sure, if you want to help you can tell us which ones are no longer
used, submit a patch and we'll remove them.
Note that we also have some work to do in the future on the message
to use sentences instead of just words. This will allow languages not
using the same word ordering than enlglish to provide a translation
for XWiki. -Vincent
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