[wp-polyglots] Transliteration and use of two scripts in Serbian language

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Milan Dinić <liste at srpski.biz> wrote:
> Plugin now works good and only on several places there is still left
> Cyrillic: on those values which are included in translation for first: post
> (you know, "Hello World"), page, comment, categories (Uncategorized and
> Blogroll), an also on three places I found it and there are screenshots of
> it below (this is from test installation, you will see Cyrillic letters).
>  http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2420/kontrolnatablawordpressjs4.jpeg
> http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4108/clanciwordpress12085383gx0.jpeg
>  http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/230/stranewordpress12085383tl0.jpeg
>
> I just wanted to inform you about this, I don't know if it can be done.

Apart from the strings set at installation, the others can be fixed.
Just add another filter in SrLatin():

add_filter('ngettext', array(&$this, 'convert_script'), 9);

These weren't translated, because they are plural forms and the
gettext filter accounts for singular-only ones.

>
>
> > >  If other languages need different transliterations, it'd be easy to
> > >  modify this plugin.  It could even pick the transliteration based on
> > >  the language code configured on the blog.  (I should do something like
> > >  that for the "Finnish Quotes" plugin, to include Norwegian and
> Icelandic
> > >  and any other languages that have derivates out there.)
> >
> >
> > I use your plugin for a base for a Bulgarian style plugin :-)
>
> We could make this for Serbian also, we use same quote style as Bulgarian :)

Sounds great. Proper quotes are important :-)

Happy translating,
Nikolay.

>
> 2008/4/18, Nikolay Bachiyski <nbachiyski at developer.bg>:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Kimmo Suominen <kimmo at global-wire.fi>
> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:15:08AM +0300, Nikolay Bachiyski wrote:
> > >  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet
> > >
> > >  One of these days I might just have to move to all UTF-8 environment
> > >  eventually.  But I still have too many files named in ISO-8859-1...
> > >
> > >  Milan sent me an updated list in private mail as well, so this time
> > >  I could avoid switching my terminal window to UTF-8.  :)
> > >
> > >
> > >  > Serbian is the only one that has official and unambiguous
> > >  > transliteration. For example Bulgarian isn't widely used in latin and
> > >  > the transliteration isn't clearly defined both ways.
> > >
> > >  Thanks -- I've updated the plugin description to say the
> transliteration
> > >  is for Serbian specifically.
> > >
> > >
> > >  > >  If other languages need different transliterations, it'd be easy
> to
> > >  > >  modify this plugin.  It could even pick the transliteration based
> on
> > >  > >  the language code configured on the blog.  (I should do something
> like
> > >  > >  that for the "Finnish Quotes" plugin, to include Norwegian and
> Icelandic
> > >  > >  and any other languages that have derivates out there.)
> > >  >
> > >  > I use your plugin for a base for a Bulgarian style plugin :-)
> > >
> > >  Good!  I'll link to it if you send me a URL.  :)
> >
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bgstyle/
> >
> > Beware, it is in Bulgarian :-)
> >
> >
> > N.
> >
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