Re: how to use i18n?

* leon breedt (2004-09-10 01:05 +0200)
> The internationalization does work, however, the gettext library needs
> to know to look for "optik.mo". I don't think its a good idea for Optik
> to implicitly set that up either [...]

It's a good idea because then /all/ the apps that use optik are
properly localised (at least to the respect of optik)

> So, here is a sample snippet of how you tell gettext to look in the 
> appropriate file:
> 
> from optik import OptionParser
> import gettext
> gettext.textdomain('optik')
> gettext.bindtextdomain('optik')
> [...] 

> You'll notice the two English messages, which is why I think you'll
> want to copy optik.de.po to myapp.de.po and change the text domain
> you bind to, so you can add your custom messages.

I found out that "gettext.textdomain('optik')" is sufficient and
"gettext.bindtextdomain('optik')" shows no effect on my box.

"textdomain" uses the "GNU gettext API" and not the "class-based API"
and therefor is "not recommended" (according to the documentation).
But anyway: it works (recommendedly or not).

So here's how I use optik and my own localisation in parallel:

import gettext
gettext.textdomain('optik')
gettext.install('myapp')

By the way: simply "gettext.install('optik')" doesn't work (don't know
why).


Thorsten



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