Note that static/skin/languages.js must be generated/updated manually
by running the static/generate_i18n_resources_list.py script. Previously
it had to be done only when new languages were added. Now the
translation counts will also need to be updated when new entries are
added to static/skin/i18n/en.json or upon merging a few translatewiki PRs.
... so that extra info about the count of translated strings can be
added.
Note that due to increased size skin/languages.js lost its
too-small-to-be-worth-compressing status.
If a translation JSON file doesn't contain the 'name' (self-name)
attribute of the translation language then that language is not included
in the list of languages available in the UI language selector.
Serving the language list as a JS file rather than JSON simplifies
a few things:
- cacheid management;
- having to manually delay the UI initialization until the JSON file
is loaded.
static/skin/languages.js must be generated/updated manually by running
the static/generate_i18n_resources_list.py script.
This is a quick workaround (at the expense of data duplication) for
having to generate the i18n data in JSON format from the embedded i18n
resource data.
Note, however, that at this point i18n resources are not included in
the list of regular static resources. This will change in the next
commit.
Veloman Yunkan
Matthieu Gautier