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Create a new language for Tiki, "generic"

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Open
Subject
Create a new language for Tiki, "generic"
Version
18.x Regression
Category
  • Feature request
Feature
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Resolution status
New
Submitted by
hman
Lastmod by
hman
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Description

Please create a new language for Tiki, a pseudo language which I would call "generic". Pseudo because it doesn't contain real language, but a "dummy" translation that gets automatically created by tools like I have introduced in the "Create a tool to" request, which extracts everything in tra() etc. clauses found in .php, .tpl or .js source code, thrown into an associative array to be used as language.php + language.js.

The keys would be the original English text, as it would be on a "real" translation, the values would be an indicator ("##") - so strings can easily be searched, the file name where the string was found and the line number. Examples can be found in the above mentioned request. This gets structured by single line comments that indicate the full (relative) path to the particular file.

Having this as a "regular" language brings the advantage that every Tiki installation will automatically bear a copy of this generic "translation" readily waiting to be translated by future translators.

These could translate line by line, occasionally looking up the source code as indicated in the value part of the associative array, to understand the context.

Translators could also easily do partial-only translations, and when later on untranslated text pops up, that text, although looking really ugly, auto-identifies itself.

Of course the problem remains that sometimes there have to be different translations depending on context, but at the moment Tiki's tra() is completely blind for context, but rectifying this is a bigger project of its own.

Importance
4
Easy to solve?
10 easy
Priority
40
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Version: Create show.tikiwiki.org instance
Ticket ID
7711
Created
Saturday 27 March, 2021 10:03:12 GMT-0000
by hman
LastModif
Friday 30 April, 2021 07:59:55 GMT-0000

Attachments

 filenamecreatedhitscommentversionfiletype 
language.js 09 May 21 07:41 GMT-00000language.js for "generic" language for Javascript, including heredocs, sorted and deduplicated. RC 7.3.
language.php 10 May 21 10:23 GMT-00000language.php for "generic" language for PHP and templates, including rare corner cases, sorted and deduplicated. This is a comprehensive compilation of all translation strings to be found in the source of Tiki 18.8. RC 7.3.


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