[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Enhanced Gettext

[Sascha Silbe]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:33:31PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

>> Can't we do this with unmodified gettext by setting the LOCALEDIR 
>> envvar?
> s/LOCALEDIR/TEXTDOMAINDIR/
No because the default is hardcoded in Python (so no environment 
variable would get used unless explicitly passed by the activity):

sascha.silbe at twin:~$ grep prefix /usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py
_default_localedir = os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'share', 'locale')


Actually it looks like gettext.py doesn't even support multiple 
directories, so either the site-specific directory must contain _all_ 
translations (including those that are unmodified) or we need to wrap 
some of the gettext code:

def find(domain, localedir=None, languages=None, all=0):
[...]
      if localedir is None:
          localedir = _default_localedir
[...]
     for lang in nelangs:
[...]
          mofile = os.path.join(localedir, lang, 'LC_MESSAGES', '%s.mo' % 
domain)


CU Sascha

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