From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: matias_jose_seco@autoproduzioni.net
Subject: Re: Website translation
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:57:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9297E48A-5CB8-46EB-88AE-A589477CA584@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ims3o4tm.fsf@gnu.org>
Le 15 juillet 2019 14:33:25 GMT+02:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
>"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 04:12:41PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Note that “lego translation” is what we should _not_ do because it
>gives
>>> translators fragments of sentences, which does not allow them to
>>> correctly translate text.
>>>
>>
>> Format strings are something we can try. If they are too fragmented
>> for translators, we can still use a custom tool to convert them and
>> their fragments to a single string which gets passed to gettext.
>
>Yes.
>
>Another option would be to locally use XML in strings, along these
>lines:
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>(use-modules (sxml simple)
> (ice-9 match))
>
>(define (X_ str)
> (match (xml->sxml (string-append "<BODY>"
> (gettext str)
> "</BODY>"))
> (('*TOP* ('BODY . lst)) lst)))
>
>`(div
> ,@(X_ "This is <a href=\"/foo\">a link</a>."))
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>That would allow us to remain string-oriented while still enjoying the
>benefits of SXML (info "(guile) Types and the Web").
>
>Maybe we’ll need a combination of format strings and stuff like that.
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.
Fyi, I sent a patch a few months ago to do exactly that, but I can't find it anymore…
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-15 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-06 12:50 Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap! matias_jose_seco
2019-07-07 14:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-07 16:57 ` Website translation (was: Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-07 18:00 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-07 22:28 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-07-11 15:15 ` Website translation Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-12 5:35 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-14 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-14 14:26 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-15 12:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-15 14:57 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2019-07-15 15:54 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-17 21:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-18 15:08 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-18 16:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-18 20:28 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-18 20:57 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-19 12:29 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-26 11:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-26 11:23 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-08-05 13:08 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-08-07 22:33 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-08-22 21:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-08-23 6:03 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-08-23 12:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-08-23 13:54 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-08-23 14:08 ` Jelle Licht
2019-08-23 20:47 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-08-25 18:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-08-26 3:08 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-09-06 14:27 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-07-18 17:06 ` sirgazil
2019-07-15 12:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-18 5:06 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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