--- wikisrc/wiki/todo/be_multilingual.mdwn	2009/11/11 09:59:26	1.1
+++ wikisrc/wiki/todo/be_multilingual.mdwn	2009/11/26 01:37:12	1.2
@@ -1 +1,19 @@
-ikiwiki is translatable with [[!iki plugins/po]]. `pkgsrc/textproc/po4a` needs to be updated for this feature to work.
+ikiwiki is translatable with [[!iki plugins/po]] (see it in action
+at [l10n.ikiwiki.info](http://l10n.ikiwiki.info/)).
+
+`textproc/po4a` needs to be updated for this feature to work, which
+in turn needs an updated `devel/gettext` (for a particular `msgmerge`
+parameter). Updating `gettext` has the following fallout for netbsd-4,
+as explained by [[joerg]]:
+
+7. netbsd-4 doesn't support positional arguments for `printf`
+7. gettext will force macros for `*printf` and all programs including
+`libintl.h` also have to link against `-lintl` if they use `printf`
+7. forcefully adding libintl is not exactly my idea of a correct
+solution
+7. and the problem of `/usr/lib/libintl.so` vs
+`/usr/pkg/lib/libintl.so` still remains
+
+We can update `devel/gettext` if we fix the netbsd-4 fallout. Then
+updating `textproc/po4a` should be easy. Then we can experiment
+with translating this wiki.