[Tiki-devel] Fixes and changes in tracker item translation coming soon (in 27.x)

Jonny Bradley via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:45:22 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.tiki.devel
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Hi all

Multilingual tracker fields (Text and TextArea) have never really worked very well, especially in association with Plugin List and we need to fix this for 27.0, which is _so_ late, so we need a quick-ish fix, but i'd like to hear any community feedback on how to do so.

There's a matrix/gitter thread i started here (thanks for the feedback so far):

https://matrix.to/#/!SLEgqpTNTlGYAhzNvK:gitter.im/$0E1LXK1krxBwK2HliF_QVFgvIDRUE-xrIW5De4o2y1A?via=gitter.im&via=matrix.org&via=coeus.ca

The options seem to be (in the order i thought of them ;)

* New format=translate for {display}
  not so good, precludes the use of other formats (thanks @luciash)

* New argument, e.g. {display name="tracker_field_permName" translate="y"}
  Ok, but seems fiddly

* It should "just work"
  Re @benoitg: "if multilingual is on, all tiki code is supposed to handle it"
  So let's do this?
  Actually idea #2 was to add a pref to make it automatically translate, so i'll make it optional

Thought i'd still share this here to (as i'm not doing it tonight), so "speak now!" or at least soon :)

jonny