2015-07-25 17:33:41 +02:00
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(I don't know whether this is about a bug or about a feature request, so apologies if this post is in the wrong place.)
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# Rationale:
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It seems to me that the way ikiwiki handles language information at
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the moment isn't optimal.
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For instance, if I want to apply different CSS properties depending on
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the language, I can't. (This matters for some typographic rules that
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differ depending on the language.)
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Also, without proper language declarations, the browser cannot hyphen
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words correctly, resulting in poor line breaking/wrapping.
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# The problem:
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## How it's done now:
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Right now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I need to write
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2015-07-25 17:38:04 +02:00
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bracket bracket !meta language="en"]]
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2015-07-25 17:33:41 +02:00
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somewhere inside a post in order to tell ikiwiki which language the
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post is written in. This will result in the post's HTML as:
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<meta name="language" content="en" />
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This isn't sufficient.
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## What isn't done
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### 1. the blog's lang
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There's no way to tell ikiwiki the overall, or main language of the
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blog at the moment (again, that's as far as I can see from reading
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documentations, forums, etc.)
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This setting would be nice, in order to add have something like
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<html lang="en">
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on all pages.
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### 2. the post's lang
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Then, if a specific post has the meta language property explicitly
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defined, it should override the language declaration set as default.
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### 3. template variable
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Right now, there's no
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<TMPL_VAR LANGUAGE>
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from what I can tell by testing. As a result, I cannot give specific
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css properties or the like.
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# Fast way to resolve this
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The easiest way to resolve this is to create a TMPL_VAR LANGUAGE so
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that at least people who care can use this variable and improve their templates.
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----
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This really is the most needed feature for me as a writer in both
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English and French that I miss the most with ikiwiki. I have looked
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around in the source code on <https://github.com/joeyh/ikiwiki> but I
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couldn't figure out where this is happening...
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I hope you also care :-)
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Thanks,
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