Re: [Nuxeo-localizer] How to create .po files

[Gitte Wange]

tirsdag 26 februar 2002 18:53 skrev du:
> Gitte Wange wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I new to Localizer (but familiar with gettext tough) ...
> >
> >I have created a product where I want to translate some daynames in the
> > class before returned to the UI.
> >
> >I have looked at the NuxWidgets product and seen how you created the
> >Multilingual class ... so now I now how the text actual gets translated ..
>
> Yesterday I released Localizer 0.8.1 (still unnounced in Zope.org), and
> the way that
> is currently used in NuxWidgets and that you've copied is deprecated. It
> still works
> and will work for a long while, however.

Okay - will try and install that instead then :-)


>   1. Remove the "Multilingual" stuff
>
>   2. At the beginning of the module, type:
>
>         from Products.Localizer import Gettext
>
>         _ = Gettext.translation(globals())
>         N_ = Gettext.dummy
>
>   3. Translate your messages with "_(message)"
>
>   4. Somewhere in the module, type:
>
>         N_('Monday')
>         N_('Tuesday')
>         ...
>
>   5. Run zgettext.py, it will work because 'Monday', etc.. are literals
>       and because it recognizes the N_ function.

Hmm ... but I want to translate some variables ... 
can't I do that ?
(I get the variables from e.g. DateTime.Month() )

> This is a well known problem, they're "Deferred translations", if you've
> some minutes read the relevant section of the Python documentation:
>
>   http://www.python.org/doc/2.1.2/lib/node196.html

Will read it later tonight :-)

TIA,
Gitte Wange