🔗 Guidelines for Translating Squid
This page covers the details involved with translating a specific piece of text.
🔗 HTML Tags
The translation of Squid is currently just a translation of the various HTML pages produced by Squid. This means: the error pages seen when things go wrong, and most of the FTP pages dealing with file transfers and directory listings
The text shown for translation may contain HTML markup. You should be careful to leave these codes in the translation unchanged. You should not be translating the text in a way that makes them removable.
🔗 Protocol Terminology
Squid deals with Internet Protocols. Sometimes pieces of these are shown in the text. They should not be removed.
There is an Internet RFC somewhere which requires each of these things to have a certain exact text. Some admin may be stuck trying to read the raw protocol and not find the se-no-stor tag anywhere when he should have been searching for if-not-cached.
If a language has other words which describe it meaningfully the best translations include a language description in brackets () or equivalent, immediately after the term itself.
Some examples of these actually seen in the pages are:
- GET
- PUT
- Content-Length:
- if-not-cached
Others may appear any time.
So an english translation might look like this: Original: PUT failed Translated: PUT (upload) failed
🔗 % Code Tags
Squid uses codes starting with % to insert certain items into the text.
Please leave these in the translated message as they are important for accurate error reporting. Remember that the final translation is going to be installed in many different systems, your preferences for showing certain things may not apply elsewhere.
I have found that in most messages where they mix with text, the code usually represents a singular noun. (IP Address, URL,or Hostnames)
A reference of the available tags, if you need to know what one means to translate it properly. Can be found at Custom Errors Feature
🔗 Language Dialects
The messages from Squid which you are looking at translating, are automatically negotiated with website visitors during their creation.
This means that the language they are translated into is very specific and we cannot accept a mix of dialects within a single coded .po translation file. Each dialect whether within a language or between countries needs to be given its own code and translated separately. See the various English or Dutch codes for an example of what this means.
If you have any unusual situation with language and country combination or language variant combinations that is not already solved, please contact the translation maintainer for assistance. (AmosJeffries at present).
🔗 Special Language Display
Some languages require Right-to-Left or otherwise altered display instead of the standard HTML English Left-to-Right settings. This is currently achieved through the use of :lang() attributes in CSS.
To ensure compatibility with Squid-2 which does not natively perform the same CSS insertion as Squid-3.1 these language settings are embedded directly into the templates and alterations need to be brought to the attention of the Squid Developers.
🔗 How to submit
Locate the errpages.pot file in the squid source code. Translating it and sending it to the translation maintainer (AmosJeffries at present).
Please note submissions are only considered for new languages or ones without a translator at the time of submission.
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.PO files need to have ISO-639 code information to indicate the language, and if possible the country ISO-3166 variant code as well.
* Alhpabet used if there are a range of alphabets used for the language (ie Latin and Cyrillic) * If you don't know these codes, an indication of that info may be just as useful (ie american english, or british english, not just english).