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Localization section list in Write tab
in Write tab ( textpattern/index.php?event=article ) section list is not adapting for non-English users
There are use section names, but not section titles, and sorting by section names too
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#2 2007-06-28 18:12:45
- Mary
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Re: Localization section list in Write tab
…is not adapting for non-English users…
I’m sorry, but I’m not understanding what you’re getting at. What is it, exactly, that you think it should be doing?
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#3 2007-06-28 20:27:54
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I think Egveny meant the cat tree and section list should be constructed of $titles and not $names. You can try it by making a very long title or name and see what happens to cat/section selects.
Tried changing that from $name to $title – not a good move. The select list grows in width and thing starts get bouncy. I wonder if once can do line breaks in form selects..
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#4 2007-06-28 20:45:57
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Re: Localization section list in Write tab
In SVN category titles get truncated when they get too long.
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#5 2007-06-29 06:52:30
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Oh, nice. I don’t have to shorten them myself now (:
The sorting problem still remains. If I got category title Ällistyttäviä älynväläyksiä , it will get named Aellistyttaeviae-aelynvaelaeyksiae. A is the first letter while Ä being the last in finnish. All scandic languages think ‘åäö’ distinct letters. I think german approaches it as “o with an umlaut”, so current “dumbing” it works for them. ( Quick look at ordering: finnish swedish and estonian . I think estonian’s the best example here.) That pseudo-randomises all category lists. Yet I think this is only a little compared to Slavic languages.
And when having categories like Aellistyttaeviae-aelynvaelaeyksiae toggling Show detail on at article list is quite a scary look. If article has two such categories, the category column is just noise. (got a patch for that though, finding..)
In short: easy category listing would be “title, asc”. (it sounds easy, it isn’t. Category edit doesn’t work that way but it’s quite doable at article edit.)
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Re: Localization section list in Write tab
Mary wrote:
I’m sorry, but I’m not understanding what you’re getting at.
Sorry for my bad English :-((
anoke understand me right
section list should be constructed of $titles and not $names.
I means section list only
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#7 2007-06-29 11:53:12
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Evgeny: yes – the category selection is ok, but the article list looks strange. I can live with sorting problem (“äö” before “qrst”), that isn’t so bad as one can read the words.
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#8 2007-06-30 02:36:55
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The auto-naming problem is not a Textpattern limitation but of PHP+your locale. Txp will eventually make use of mbstring if and when it is available (it isn’t always supported by a given webhost, although it should be, which means then we would still have to fall back to the current behaviour).
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#9 2007-06-30 21:06:41
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Aren’t section/category names like they are due doSlashing and dumbDowning?
How come strtolower or mbstring restrict from changing $rs = safe_column("name...) to something more sensible like $rs = safe_rows("name, title....) in section_popup()? Or adding truncated fetch_section_title() for each in $rs before selectInput() in section_popup()?
Strange ordering isn’t that bad for a problem if one can read the options in the select list. (fetch_section/category_title() would be nice in article listing’s result rows too)
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Re: Localization section list in Write tab
Mary wrote:
The auto-naming problem is not a Textpattern limitation…
Mary! I tell not about auto-naming.
In section list is displayed names of sections. Section titles is NOT displayed.
Please look textpattern/index.php?event=article
Last edited by Evgeny (2007-07-02 07:07:38)
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#11 2007-07-09 18:43:02
- anoke
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Re: Localization section list in Write tab
Evgeny: It’s quite easy to change it to support at least scandinavic åäö-letters. Email me if you want trying it.
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