translation / i18n confusion

[thet]

I'm confused about how the mockup translation machinery works.
Mockup tries to get the message catalog in the widgets domain via ajax from plonejs18n. But - for example - in the german language, there are no translations in plone.app.locales. Still, e.g. the pickadate pattern is translated, because it loads all translations via data-attributes.

I want to fix the translations for the recurrence pattern, but I'm asking myself where to start. Adding it to data-attributes (which can be quite lengthy, look at https://github.com/plone/plone.formwidget.recurrence/blob/master/plone/formwidget/recurrence/browser/i18n.py ), or adding it to the widgets message catalog in plone.app.locales?

Does i18ndude extract message strings from mockup templates?

[vangheem]

I think pickadate is different because we're passing in lists of values to the pickadate months, day names, etc into the pickadate widget. We'd have to do a lot of wonky stuff in js or convert the pickadate.js stuff in order to make it use the jsi18n stuff. Look at: https://github.com/plone/plone.app.widgets/blob/master/plone/app/widgets/utils.py#L49 -- it should make sense.

I started trying to add js translations to the recurrence pattern and it was a pain--I gave up. The widgets message catalog is IN plone.app.locales now: https://github.com/collective/plone.app.locales/blob/master/plone/app/locales/locales/widgets.pot

They are generated from mockup using a grunt task. Run make make i18n-dump and then copy the pot file over to plone.app.locales.

[thet]

tnx, that should give me a good start

[thet]

i'm on Plone 4.3, btw. Maybe I'll just add a widgets catalog to plone.app.widgets and add appropriate stuff to plone.app.locales too, of course

[pbauer]

I created a new widets.pot file with make i18n-dump and there are many changes (collective/plone.app.locales@efedb6d2). Then I synced the po-files and created a pr with all that: collective/plone.app.locales#54

Now I'd start translating strings. Is that ok?

[vangheem]

That'd be great!

[vincentfretin]

Five years later :-)
Remaining internationalization issues in folder contents: plone/Products.CMFPlone#2188 (comment)
Documentation how to test changes in Plone and handle translations: #985

[vincentfretin]

There exists an issue for each i18n bugs I think now. I'm closing this issue.