Re: Incorrect links in explicitly localized documentation

[Hans Aikema]

On 1-2-2012 21:18, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 1 February 2012 20:06, Hans Aikema<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > When explicitly browsing to a specific-language version of the userguides the
> > internal links link to the 'browser preferred language' version of the Userguide
> > rather than the currently displayed version
> >
> > E.g. when browsing to
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/index.nl.html
> > with an 'accepted languages most significant preference for English' language
> > settings in the browser the displayed page is in Dutch, but all followed links
> > lead to the English version of the documentation.
> >
> > One would expect that if a given page is in Dutch and the link-texts are in
> > Dutch than the linked pages will also appear in Dutch.
> >
> > Allthough only a minor issue (can be resolved by modifying a browser's preferred
> > language sequence), it's still quite an annoyance when one surfs by default
> > using English (because of the many poorly translated sites one wants to avoid)
> > but with a google search arrives at the Dutch documentation pages to then be
> > presented only links for English-language versions of the Documentation pages.
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1441
>
> I think this is the tracker for this
>
> --
>
> James
> .
Not quite... if I interpret that issue correctly that issue says 'If we 
link to an untranslated page the link-text also becomes untranslated, it 
should be possible to have a localized link-text to link to an 
untranslated page'. (Such an untranslated
My issue is that when I am on a translated page and a translated page 
for a link-target exists, but my browser preferred language is set to 
English I get redirected to the English page. The issue you point to 
makes me believe that, at least for the Dutch translations, there is 
indeed an error: namelijk not including the -nl suffix on macro calls 
for links to already translated pages.

For example:

On http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/index.nl.html there is 
a link '1. Leerboek' in the table of contents pointing to
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/tutorial

which with a browser-preferred language of English leads the webserver to serve 
up
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/tutorial.html

allthough there IS a localized Dutch page for this link-target:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/tutorial.nl.html

The webserver is doing it's job in serving up the 'preferred language'-version 
of the requested source, but being explicitly on the Dutch-language version of 
the Documentation I would expect the links to make my browser explicitly 
request the Dutch-language version of the resource whenever available.

Regards,
Hans