Re: Website translation (was: Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!)

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes:

> On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 04:20:59PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Thanks for bringing this up.  I’m very much convinced this is an
>> important task, and I’m happy there’s already a team of dedicated
>> volunteers who’ve worked hard translating the manual and messages!
>>
>
> Yes. :)
>
>> The next obvious step is to translate the web site.  There were open
>> questions as to how to do it, but I think Julien and Florian had more or
>> less found a way forward, so I hope we can work on it soonish.
>> 
>
> The method I use is the _ macro at
> <https://pelzflorian.de/git/pelzfloriande-website/tree/haunt.scm>
> (Guix sensibly would call such a macro G_).  It simply calls setlocale
> once for each string that needs to be translated.

Maybe see also the conversation about a i18n quasiquote here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-12/msg00050.html