[theme-reviewers] About Text Domain Issues

[Sayontan Sinha]

Cais,
Submitting a patch sounds like the right approach. I will work on it.

Thanks!
Sayontan.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> @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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