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Translations Revamp

Below are ideas to improve the Tiki interface (not content) translation system. Some were discussed at TikiFest Virtual 2021.

Aims

Add context to translatable strings


See summary: Contextual translations

As discussed on the dev list here
Status: DONE and approved during TikifestVirtual2021 on https://gitlab.com/jyhem/tiki-translations-revamp. Working solution in master: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/67cbcb7ad2080c077bcd25771b7389b4243ba496. Please review/comment.

Testing procedure

Insert a new string or modify an existing string in the source or a template with context like this: "Edit_C(title)". Then rebuild the language files.

Rebuilding language files
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php console.php translation:englishupdate --scm=git php console.php translation:getstrings php console.php c:c


Current plan is to add an underscore with upper "C" (as in context) and parentheses wrapped string to indicate context, e.g.:

lang/en/language.php
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"edit_C(verb)" => "edit", "edit_C(noun)" => "edit", "D_C(abbrev-day)" => "D", "M_C(abbrev-month)" => "M", "Location_C(map)" => "Location", "Rent_C(verb)" => "Rent",
lang/fr/language.php
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"edit_C(verb)" => "modifier", "edit_C(noun)" => "modification", "D_C(abbrev-day)" => "J", "M_C(abbrev-month)" => "M", "Location_C(map)" => "Lieu", "Rent_C(verb)" => "Location",

Make the Smarty {tr} block work for RTL Languages

Discussion during TikifestVirtual2021 led to the conclusion this is not a Translation Revamp issue.

Add JavaScript Translation Collecting to the Get Strings Command

Adapt php console.php translation:getstrings to populate all the missing tr() to the language.js files.
Status: Is any volunteer working on this?
How are the language.js files currently created and maintained?

Get rid of the special handling of punctuation

Status: Maybe @Jean-Marc Libs can have a look after the Add context to translatable strings part is working before the TikiFest (no promises).

As was discussed numerous times in TikiFests, the idea of automating the handling of punctuation has more drawbacks than benefits. Plus, it's one more confusing Tiki-specific thing to learn for translators.

The explanation comment in lang/*/language.php
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/* Note for translators about translation of text ending with punctuation * * The current list of concerned punctuation can be found in 'lib/init/tra.php' * On 2009-03-02, it is: (':', '!', ';', '.', ',', '?') * For clarity, we explain here only for colons: ':' but it is the same for the rest * * Short version: it is not a problem that string "Login:" has no translation. Only "Login" needs to be translated. * * Technical justification: * If a string ending with colon needs translating (like "{tr}Login:{/tr}") * then Tiki tries to translate 'Login' and ':' separately. * This allows to have only one translation for "{tr}Login{/tr}" and "{tr}Login:{/tr}" * and it still allows to translate ":" as " :" for languages that * need it (like French) * Note: the difference is invisible but " :" has an UTF-8 non-breaking-space, not a regular space, but the UTF-8 equivalent of the HTML  . * This allows correctly displaying emails and JavaScript messages, not only web pages as would happen with  . */




Change our script to avoid messing up numbers

This happened more than once: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2280



Storage of translations

Should we store in a DB instead of Source Control?

Backporting / forward porting

  • We could encourage translators to improve translations directly on GitLab.
  • And then, we periodically automatically backport translations to active branches (is strings match).

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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