[PD-dev] updates to search_plugin for translation support

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 22, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
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>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:30 PM
>> Subject: [PD-dev] updates to search_plugin for translation support
>> 
>> 
>> Hey Jonathan,
>> 
>> I just committed my updates to your search_plugin, here's what I did:
>> 
>> * renamed Browser2.0 to Search
>> 
>> * renamed "Keyword Search" title to "Search by Tag".  The 
>> "keyword" part didn't seem to make sense once doing the 
>> translation, since the keywords won't be translated, or they won't 
>> work.  So it seem to me they are really more "tags" than 
>> keywords".
> 
> That will cause confusion.
> 
> The pd META subpatch consists of various comments with the form
> "TAG value1 value2 etc.".  One of those tags happens to be
> "KEYWORDS".  All the blue links listed under the heading "Keyword Search"
> are possible values that I've used after the tag "KEYWORDS" in help patches.
> Therefore, it is a "Keyword Search"-- a search for values from a specific type of
> tag named "KEYWORDS"-- and not a "Search by Tag", which implies values
> matched from various tags like KEYWORDS, DESCRIPTION, OUTLET_1, etc.
> 
> The fact that you can't translate the keywords is simply a limitation of pd's
> implementation which has no way to sensibly translate content inside patches.
> (At least none that I know of.)


I think that the PDDP KEYWORDS are really functionally like tags in the blog/etc. sense, like in this sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)  I can't think of a common usage for the term 'keyword' for describing this, though its a synonym.  So I wanted try to use the most common language possible.

But yes, I agree, calling it "tags" one place and "keywords" another will cause confusion.  The term "KEYWORDS" isn't wrong, just much less common.  Maybe it could incorporate both terms:  

"Search by Keyword Tag"

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