[Sugar-devel] Unicode strings in translations

[Gonzalo Odiard]

You can read a utf8 encodec file with codecs.open too.

http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html

Gonzalo


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <
alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have problems too..
>
> I load the strings from a file, and have that problems (even the file is
> UTF-8).
>
> My solution: when load a string, convert it:
>
> name_converted = unicode(name, 'UTF-8')
>
> > From: martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:00:31 -0400
> > To: humitos at gmail.com
> > CC: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Unicode strings in translations
>
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Manuel Kaufmann <humitos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > To get Unicode strings from gettext I had to put these lines in my
> > > lesssonscreen.py file:
> > >
> > > import gettext
> > > gettext.install('po', unicode=True)
> >
> > Awright. Seems like gettext hasn't realized that it's 2012 and
> > defaults to using codepages.
> >
> > I'd vote for gettext.install('po', unicode=True) everywhere. All Sugar
> > builds have been in the utf-8 era, so this should work even in
> > extremely old builds.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > m
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