[theme-reviewers] About Text Domain Issues

[Edward Caissie]

@Sayontan -

Have you considered submitting a ticket and patch for the function you are
concerned with? I would imagine that would be the most correct solution to
this issue as others may be experiencing the same one you are seeing.
The guideline itself is rather straightforward and meant to deal with the
possibility that the "default" translations may not exist. I imagine the
potential for cross-over translation strings is immense but only if they
exist, otherwise you will be seeing even more poorly translated sites if
you expect the default to provide these strings.

Also to note, internationalization is on the 3.4 development list, perhaps
you could get involved there as well. Here's a recent update:
http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/team-update-i18n-our-first-two-week-cycle/


Cais.


On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com> wrote:

> The theme discussed here is mine. I had actually raised this point earlier
> prior to coding it:
> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2011-December/007526.html(you can see the other posts on the thread too). My rationale is this: if I
> include the theme-slug in the domain, and then my translators don't update
> the PO and MO files, the strings will not be translated though WP's native
> translations exist. Additionally, the theme is only translated to 30 odd
> languages. For all other languages for which WP's translations exist these
> strings are shown untranslated. This is going to lead to a worse situation
> than the default.
>
> Also it might be worthwhile to note the context. I am trying to extend a
> WP class function that doesn't define any hooks. That makes me include the
> function verbatim, then add my code to it. If there were hooks I wouldn't
> be required to include the original code, however without the hook I am put
> in a double-bind with respect to translation.
>
> Sayontan.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:18 AM, George Mamadashvili <
> georgemamadashvili at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As far as I know themes are not required to be translation ready, but if
>> they are, authors should do i18n properly.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> If it's in the Theme, then the Theme needs to provide the translation
>>>> for the string. It doesn't matter if that same string is in core. We've
>>>> covered this one quite a bit on the list.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree with the point being made, but we should not expect all theme
>>> authors to stay current on all discussions made on the mailing list. If
>>> something has been "covered ... quite a bit" then perhaps it also requires
>>> an entry in the guidelines as well?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cais.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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