Plone Placeless Translation Service metadata missing from po files

[Godefroid Chapelle]

It would be nice if any header unknown by Rosetta found in .pot files could be added to the produced .po file :

This would allow a simple way of getting the right header metadata needed by Plone Placeless Translation Service

[Dafydd Harries (daf)]

Hi Godefroid,

Can you tell me more about the headers you need included in the PO files? Do they follow the "X-" convention?

It should be fairly simple to copy headers from the PO template to exported PO files.

[Godefroid Chapelle (gotcha)]

The field in the header is 'domain'.

If it is on the .pot file, it could be copied to the .po files.

Thanks

[Dafydd Harries (daf)]

I've implemented this. Should turn up in production next week.

[Godefroid Chapelle (gotcha)]

looking forward to using it

Thanks

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

From the current .pot file we have for plone in Rosetta, I can see that you are using this non standard headers:

"Language-Code: fr\n"
"Language-Name: French\n"
"Preferred-Encodings: latin1 utf-8\n"
"Domain: compopack\n"
"X-Is-Fallback-For: fr-be fr-ca fr-lu fr-mc fr-ch\n"

All them should start with a 'X-' prefix, like X-Is-Fallback-For

In fact, gettext's .po files already support something like:

domain "domain_1"
msgid "hello world"
msgstr "hei verden"

To define the translation domain so you don't need that 'Domain:' header.

Do you think you would promote the Plone fix for that? I suppose it's not easy, but you should follow the standard when possible...

[Dafydd Harries (daf)]

Given that Rosetta doesn't support the Gettext domain declaration, I wouldn't encourage Plone to start using that.

It would be marginally nicer if the "Domain" header were an "X-Domain" header, but it's not of any practical difference as far as I can tell.

If all PO templates had a Domain header, it would make things a lot easier for Rosetta -- we could make most of Martin's hacks for working out the domain go away, I think.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Well, Rosetta it's not difficult to add support for standard domains in Rosetta.

I know that's unrelated with Rosetta, but we should follow the standards! As you already know, that's the only way to interoperate between applications...

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