[gravatar-polygots] Some comments about i18n of Gravatar

[Demitrious Kelly]

ok Grav should now redirect based on your browsers accept-language 
request header... this, of course, assumes that you're on 
en.gravatar.com, that one of your preferred languages matches a gravatar 
translation, and that en doesnt occur before the first valid other 
language in the request header.  (prefix).gravatar.com always forces the 
translation unless (prefix) is "en" which is how this all gets kicked 
off.  so...

en.gravatar.com/emails (accept-language: sv,en) will redirect to 
http://sv.gravatar.com/emails and display swedish

en.gravatar.com/emails (accept-language: blah,sv,en) will redirect to 
http://sv.gravatar.com/emails and display swedish

en.gravatar.com/emails (accept-language: en,sv) will not redirect and 
display english

sv.gravatar.com/emails (accept-language: en) will not redirect and 
display swedish

sv.gravatar.com/emails (accept-language: fr,en) will not redirect, and 
display swedish

If I messed up somewhere on this, please let me know. I'm doing my best 
to learn fast here :) I will address the other concerns as time permits

Cheers!
DK

Milan Dinic' wrote:
> I finished translation and it went live, so here are some things I saw 
> and that should be noted.
>
> 1) Non-gettexted strings
>
> There are still strings that can't be translated since they aren't in 
> pot file. Whole image cropping page is in this, then there is pop-up 
> on /emails page for confirmation of e-mail and text "primary" on that 
> page, button "Add" on /emails/new page, link "Close This Window" on 
> help pop-up on /gravatars/new/webcam, on /site/check text "How your 
> gravatar looks on sites using the following ratings" and text below 
> avatars. like "G or better", and finally e-mail sent for confirming 
> e-mail addresses. Also I see that flash for taking pictures from web 
> camera is on English but I don't know could this be i18n, it's not 
> something important, but if it can't you should note that so that we 
> don't translate name of flash buttons in help
>
> 2) Accept language headers
>
> I expected that when I go to http://www.gravatar.com or 
> http://gravatar.com I get redirected based on my language preferences 
> sent by browser in headers but instead all redirections go to 
> en.gravatar.com <http://en.gravatar.com>
>
> I don't know did you even planned this, but I think that redirection 
> from this two URLs should work based on language preferences, so if 
> user's language in header is one of existing languages in Gravatar it 
> should be redirected to that Gravatar's version, and if that language 
> is not available then to be redirected to default English version.
>
> 3) Fixed size
>
> Sizes for some elements are fixed, so text that is longer then English 
> one is npt completely visible or it is splitted in two lines. Examples 
> are dropdown menus on top (fixed at 130 and 70 pixels) or text "file" 
> near file upload field on /gravatars/new/computer/ or button "Set 
> Password" on page /account/change-password.
> If this can't be i18n, same as in flash case, it should be noted so 
> that translators be careful and put shorter strings.
>
> 4) gravatar or Gravatar
>
> There is non-consistent use of this term in all English text. I can't 
> know when there is "gravatar" (without upper-case capital letter) is 
> it meant on avatar (image) or on name of service (Gravatar). This is 
> small gramaticall issue that is not so important but I still want to 
> note it :)
>
> This is everything for now.
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