[pmwiki-users] More template queries and UTF-8 display

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:14:34PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> 
> On 16/06/2005, at 10:42 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> >It's automatically handled on pmwiki.org; any group that begins
> >with PmWiki[A-Z][a-z] is automatically given its own  
> >internationalization
> >taken from that group's "XLPage".  Other groups are unaffected.
> 
> I'm sorry, Patrick, but I don't understand if I need to do anything  
> else or not. I've done the XLPageTemplate, and the other main  
> templates. Do I do anything else, to localize the main site, if you  
> would like that done?

Basically there are two steps involved in creating a local translation
on pmwiki.org:  
   1.  create an XLPage in the appropriate PmWikiXx group 
       (where "Xx" is the appropriate two-letter language code), 
   2.  create the "home page" for the group as PmWikiXx/PmWikiXx .

pmwiki.org tries to help out a bit by providing page templates for each
of the above pages.  For example, if someone wanted to create a Maori
translation (language code "mi"), they would fill in the pages at
    http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWikiMi/XLPage?action=edit
    http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWikiMi/PmWikiMi?action=edit

That's all that really *needs* to be done to provide a localization.
However, if you want to go further, and provide translations of
documentation or other files, then it's simply a matter of creating
pages within the new group.  As far as what pages should be translated,
and how they should be translated -- I tend to leave those decisions
up to whoever is doing the work of translating.  :-)

There is also a page that was set up at 
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Localization, but I notice the instructions
and guidelines it provides are substantially different from what
I just wrote above, so we should probably fix that.

> On the wiki site, I can't access the side menu to translate that: is  
> there a template I should use?

I have the side menu password protected -- the password is "quick".

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