Hi Tomeu, I'm starting up sugar-jhbuild with the command 'LANG=es ./sugar-jhbuild run'. Then I open up a terminal and do 'sugar-launch annotate'. I tried it with other activities and they seem to work just fine with translation. Faisal <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net">tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, from that strace log, seems like gettext thinks you are in the en locale, right? How are you running your activity? Regards, Tomeu <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Faisal Anwar <<a href="mailto:fanwar@mediamods.com">fanwar@mediamods.com</a>> wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm trying to set up some simple internationalization on a sugar activity > but am running in to problems. I am specifically using sugar-jhbuild and > launching it with 'LANG=es ./sugar-jhbuild run' command when I want to test > my internationalization out. Here are the steps I have followed (I used > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_i18n" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_i18n</a> and > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/Testing" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/Testing</a> to guide me): > > 1. First, I created a directory within my activity (a simple shell fo an > activity which I have called Annotate.activity) called 'po' and I went in to > that directory. > 2. In Annotate.activity/po, I created a POTFILES.in file and put the > following text: > > encoding: UTF-8 > annotateactivity.py > > 3. I launched sugar-jhbuild and went in to the terminal, where I ran 'python > setup.py genpot' from the Annotate.activity directory. This generated an > 'Annotate.pot' file. I went in to Annotate.pot and added some translations > for strings that I knew would need translating in my program (one specific > one was a from a print statement where the string is wrapped in _()). > > 4. Still in sugar-jhbuild's terminal, I ran 'msginit -l es' which generated > a file called 'es.po'. > > 5. finally, I did 'msgfmt -o > ../locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a> es.po' to generate > the mo file and place it within the right directory for spanish (the > directory path is similar to the one I found for Web.activity, whose > translations are working fine). > > After doing all this, I restarted sugar-jhbuild by using 'LANG=es > ./sugar-jhbuild run' . I can see other activities have text translated, but > my activity is not translating the text that I wrapped in _() and was > printing out. I checked the source file and I am using gettext (importing it > as _ and then using the wrapper in the print statement I want translated). > > Someone suggested trying to do an strace to see what was happening. I did > this and found the following in the portion of the log where it has any > reference to the string I want translated: > > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be > translated > ) = 33 > > 1 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 2 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 3 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 4 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 5 write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be > translated > 6 ) = 33 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be > translated > ) = 33 > > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be > translated > ) = 33 > > 1 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 2 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 3 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 4 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 5 write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be > translated > 6 ) = 33 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/<a href="http://org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo" target="_blank">org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo</a>", > 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be > translated > ) = 33 > > I would greatly appreciate any feedback on why translation is not working > here. > > Thanks > > > Faisal > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > Sugar 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