Serving localized gnome.org

[Francesco Levorato <lists flevour net>]

After some researches on debian.org and a brief discussion with thos and 
jdub in IRC, I'm posting the main ideas-guidelines to serve localized 
pages on gnome.org:
1. there will be a menu somewhere that will let you choose your 
favourite language. To override the Accept-language header we will need 
to set a cookie and a server side script to check it and serve the 
correct page.

2. using MultiViews apache option or a custom server side script we will 
serve pages according to the cookie value (if its set) or to the 
Accept-header (if present). I have no experience with MultiViews, but I 
think the server side script is the best approach. I dont want to push 
this approach too far, but since this script would be required in any 
page, it could be named /index.[php|pl|cgi|whatever] and with a proper 
UrlRewrite it could manage to server all the pages in any sub-dir. This 
could raise a problem with current Rewrite entries in .htaccess

3. actual translation of content will take place through po-files as 
requested by the i18n list [1]. At the moment I have no idea about how 
to create such files (xml2po seems to be the way, though) and how to 
integrate the translation provided into the pages. More on this in a 
future mail.

Best regards,
flevour
[1] 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2004-December/msg00060.html 
(last paragraph)