Question: How to translate tags?

[jcristovao]

Is it possible to translate tags, meaning, having two different tags regarding the same concept:

• photography (EN)
• fotografia (PT)

But when using the i18n_subsites plugin, changing the address from /pt/... to /en/... having it do the tag translation?

Thanks

[andreubotella]

Here's a bit of a hackish way to do it for categories and tags:

Add something like this to your pelicanconf.py (use TAG_SUBSTITUTIONS for tags):

CATEGORY_SUBSTITUTIONS = [
   ("fotografía", "photography", True),
   ("撮影", "photography", True),
   ("desarrollo de software", "software development", True),
   ("ソフトウェアー開発", "software development", True)
]

And then add the categories to I18N_SUBSITES:

I18N_SUBSITES = {
   "es": {
      "CATEGORY_SUBSTITUTIONS": [
         ("photography", "fotografía", True),
         ("撮影", "fotografía", True),
         ("software development", "desarrollo de software", True),
         ("ソフトウェアー開発", "desarrollo de software", True)
      ]
   },
   "jp": {
      "CATEGORY_SUBSTITUTIONS": [
         ("photography", "撮影", True),
         ("fotografía", "撮影", True),
         ("software development", "ソフトウェアー開発", True),
         ("desarrollo de software", "ソフトウェアー開発", True)
      ]
   }
}

It's basically treating the category/tag names for other languages as aliases for the current language's. See SLUG_SUBSTITUTIONS, CATEGORY_SUBSTITUTIONS and TAG_SUBSTITUTIONS in the Pelican settings documentation.

I guess this could very well be a plugin on itself, with a single setting that defined once the different names in each language and then added the substitutions.

[justinmayer]

@andreubotella: Would you be interested in working on such a plugin?