Re: Website translation

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 04:20:59PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Thanks for bringing this up.  I’m very much convinced this is an
>>> important task, and I’m happy there’s already a team of dedicated
>>> volunteers who’ve worked hard translating the manual and messages!
>>>
>>
>> Yes. :)
>>
>>> The next obvious step is to translate the web site.  There were open
>>> questions as to how to do it, but I think Julien and Florian had more or
>>> less found a way forward, so I hope we can work on it soonish.
>>> 
>>
>> The method I use is the _ macro at
>> <https://pelzflorian.de/git/pelzfloriande-website/tree/haunt.scm>
>> (Guix sensibly would call such a macro G_).  It simply calls setlocale
>> once for each string that needs to be translated.
>
> Maybe see also the conversation about a i18n quasiquote here:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-12/msg00050.html

Ah yes, I believe the issue you raised in that message (“lego
translations”) is not addressed by Florian’s approach.

However, the #_ form you propose doesn’t quite work either because
xgettext in its current form wouldn’t be able to extract it.

sirgazil proposed a solution that’s similar to format strings to address
that:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-12/msg00071.html

Worth a try!

Thanks,
Ludo’.