[Moin-devel] Norwegian (bokmal) translation

[Thomas Waldmann]

> We consider using MoinMoin (1.2.3) for technical documentation in our 
> organization. To this end, I started a norwegian (bokmal) translation of 
> MoinMoin (ISO code nb). I just finished a second walk through the .po 
> file and expect it to be finished and proofread early next week (maybe I 
> should add this to http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/Translation?).

Please add it there. If completion doesn't take too long, it will get 
into 1.2.4 which is soon to be released as the final 1.2.x release.

Just send the nb.po to me when finished.

After that, we must work on getting 1.3 out (and we need translators for 
that, too, as some strings have changed).

> After looking through the documentation and peeking a bit into the code 
> I have the understanding that the language specific system- and help 
> files must have unique names. Is this correct, or did I miss something?

The language file with the system and help texts will be named nb.po 
(and a nb.py will be generated out of that), we just use the iso code.
This usually shouldn't be a problem.

Another thing are the help and system wiki pages - they also need to 
have unique names.

> If this is the case, than we might sooner or later run into a problem. 
> The scandinavian languages are quite close together, so it is not always 
> easy to find meaningful names distinct from the ones used by our 
> scandinavian friends. It gets worse by the fact that there exist two 
> norwegian languages (bokmal, ISO nb, and nynorsk, nn). Both languages 
> are so close together that many pages would end up with the same name, 
> and the only way would probably be to introduce a postfix (which does 
> not really look good).

Well, if they are so close, why not just use the same page? :)

If that is not possible, you currently must try to find another page name.

> For the time being, we do not intend to build a nynorsk version, otoh, 
> public institutions are required to offer both choices, so we might have 
> to sometime in the future.

There is long-time todo item "multilang" we hope to get done in 1.4 
finally. Maybe that will solve that problem, having separate namespaces 
for the languages.

Thomas