Re: [Nuxeo-localizer] ZWiki internationalization

[Juan David Ibáñez Palomar]

Simon Michael wrote:

> Hi Juan,
>
> just want to say thank you for your detailed how-to. I'm impatient to work
> on this. Also,
>
> > _ = Gettext.translation(globals()) # or "gettext =
> > Gettext.translation(globals()) "
> > N_ = Gettext.dummy
> >
> > ....
> >
> > _('Edit conflict!')
>
> I don't see quite what's going on here, except string literals look easier
> to type.. and did you say this is a standard idiom for i18n in python  ?

Hi,

Actually, it isn't a Python standard, but a Gettext convention.

The canocical name is "gettext(message)", but there's the convention
to use an underscore, so translating a message only needs to add three
characters. Look at the Gettext documentation:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/index.html

In particular the section "Preparing Program Sources".

You can use "gettext" or "_" (or something else, but then the extraction
tool won't work).


About Python, usually the translation function is either installed on the
builtins namespace or a module function. See the documentation for the
"gettext" module:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.1.2/lib/module-gettext.html

With an application like Zope installing in the namespace wouldn't work,
it must be in the module as it's now.


Cheers,

--
J. David Ib??ez, Nuxeo.com
Zope developer (http://www.zope.org)