Bugs item #1861600, was opened at 2008-01-01 13:01 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jidanni You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1861600&group_id=103 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Web/CGI Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: jidanni (jidanni) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)

Summary: whole HTML templates approach wrong

Initial Comment: Gentlemen, observe the deformed child among $ grep -ihc button mailman-2.1.10b1/templates/*/options.html|xargs 26 26 26 26 26 28 26 25 26 22 26 26 26 26 28 26 26 25 26 27 26 26 26 26 26 27 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 14 Yes at the very end, 14. Might as well just $ iconv -t gb2312 templates/zh_CN/options.html|iconv -f gb2312 -t big5| iconv -f big5 > templates/zh_TW/options.html It's better than a form without a submit button. Who knows how many other parts of mailman lack an eye here, a leg there... ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: jidanni (jidanni) Date: 2008-01-17 09:17

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1971011 Originator: YES Gentlemen, I have figured out how to use the poorly documented transcheck command, and the winner is.... $ for i in $(cd messages;ls); do echo -n $i:\ ; bin/transcheck -q $i;done ar: 15 warnings in 2 files ca: 51 warnings in 4 files cs: 2 warnings in 1 files da: 17 warnings in 2 files de: 38 warnings in 10 files es: 40 warnings in 6 files ja: 0 warnings in 0 files ... sv: 50 warnings in 2 files tr: 21 warnings in 2 files uk: 17 warnings in 2 files vi: 9 warnings in 3 files zh_CN: 31 warnings in 4 files zh_TW: 93 warnings in 10 files That's right, zh_TW, another gold medal. Actually it appears your whole approach is wrong. With entire .html and .txt files to be translated, there will always be missing buttons, etc. If instead using just strings in .po files, if a message isn't translated, at least the English will be shown to the user. Anyway how terrible to have unlucky languages with missing buttons. Let's see how MediaWiki does this. There is just one template, and the stings are translated only. Doesn't that make more sense? You program's functionality shouldn't vary by language, but just the strings that describe the functionality. If one wants to customize, then one should customize the template, affecting all languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1861600&group_id=103