Re: Website translation

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:13:53PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > If this internationalization is to be deployed, the NGINX server
> > offering guix.gnu.org would need to redirect according to
> > Accept-Language headers.  I do not know if nginx alone can do this
> > properly by now, otherwise there are Lua programs for nginx to handle
> > Accept-Language or a custom Guile webserver could be written.
> 
> The nginx config is in guix-maintenance.git, but yeah, and I suspect
> nginx alone can handle it.  We’ll see!
> 
> I haven’t reviewed in detail but the approach LGTM, so I’d be willing to
> move forward on this.  Julien, sirgazil, Ricardo: WDYT?
>

Then I will look at .guix.scm you mentioned (I did not notice that it
exists) and continue adding translations to the other files.

It would be nice if my code were simpler, but I do not know how and at
least it works.


> We should make sure existing URLs are preserved.  Do you know if that’s
> the case?
> 

Preserving URLs requires the above redirects based on the
Accept-Language HTTP headers.



> Also, I suppose we don’t translate URI paths themselves, right?  That’s
> probably OK, at least as a first version.
>

I do not understand.


> Thanks for your work!
> 
> Ludo’.

:)

Regards,
Florian