Re: Website translation

[sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

---- On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:08:36 -0500 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote ----

 > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:16:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: 
 > > I think we now have an overview of the possibilities (including maybe 
 > > ‘itstool’ that Ricardo mentions.)  I’d say that whoever is interested 
 > > should give it a try with what looks like the most promising approach 
 > > and report back with a prototype.  :-) 
 > > 
 >  
 > I tried to make gettext usable (not yet implementing any discussed 
 > approach), but it is a little rough: I tried using msgctxts.  Sadly 
 > Guile is missing a pgettext function, I think.  Should I use Guile’s 
 > ffi?  I think msgctxts could help with fragmentation, as I would 
 > prefer format strings with msgctxt over HTML-that-is-not-SHTML with 
 > itstool (I may misunderstand itstool though). 


I faced the same problem. With the current  gettext tools in Guile, I couldn't find any way to solve ambiguities.


 > sirgazil (Cc), long ago at 
 > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-12/msg00071.html> 
 > you said you had written an interleave function for format strings. 
 > Do you have the code somewhere?  I see in the commit log you are still 
 > actively working on the Guix website. 


Yes, the function is here:

https://gitlab.com/sirgazil/guile-lab/blob/master/glab/i18n.scm

I use it for my own websites

http://sirgazil.bitbucket.io/
https://sirgazil.gitlab.io/golea/

But I use it to get things done.


 > Also, I believe this discussion is actually 
 > <https://issues.guix.info/issue/26302>.  Should I reference this 
 > thread there? 
 >  
 > Regards, 
 > Florian