[Sugar-devel] forcing a specific language translation

[Erik Blankinship]

Normally, I use something like this to automatically get translations
from the right .mo file

from gettext import gettext

def _( s ):
    return gettext( s )

But what if I want to force my activity to run in a different
language?  (e.g. Swedish Chef Cookbook Activity)

I tried this:

import gettext
force_lang = gettext.translation('SwedishChef', languages=['sv'] )
force_lang.install( )

def _( s ):
    return force_lang.gettext( s )

But it did not work and I get back the default strings from my python
code instead.

Any suggestions?  Thanks!

Erik
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