dogtail-devel [Bug 377298] dogtail is not localized

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------- Comment #24 from Michal Babej  2007-11-29 14:24 UTC -------
Update:

>  - bindtextdomain needs to set the locale dir.
i didn't use bindtextdomain, sorry, i didn't find any need to provide a path to
locales, the system default path works fine. Now i see Solaris has a different
locale path, so yes it needs some fixing.

>  - Some of .py loose '_' macro. It causes execution errors.
Yeah, that needs correction. _() is created by calling gettext.install(), so
before that call it's not available. So far i put it into tree.py and sniff
only.

>  - The single quotation does not work with intltool which is used by many
> translators.
See my note below.

>  - gnome.ui needs to be loaded.
I don't understand this one, sorry.

> Yes, I put the sniff and dogtail-recorder is saved in POTFILES.in at the moment
> however I think that finally we need to renamed sniff to sniff.py in the source
> files so that intltool-update can detect the file.

Note: Renaming sniff to sniff.py won't help at all, intltool-update uses
gettext on all files it can't parse itself - including python. Not only gettext
doesn't understand python's single quotation, even if it's valid. An example:
change the quit() function in sniff to:

def quit(*args):
    """
    haluska
    print _("asdfsadfsdfgdf")
    """
    gtk.main_quit()

and run intltool-update. It's going to create:
#: ../sniff/sniff:59
msgid "asdfsadfsdfgdf"
msgstr ""

because it doesn't understand python comments (and who knows what else).

> 
> > Unfortunately python's support for i18n isn't all-star either.

> I think when the python official package is available, the option is
> considered. At the moment, none python intltool is available and it's used by
> several python applications, gnome-menus, orca and etc.

I found that pygettext.py (python's xgettext,
http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py)
is packaged for Fedora already in a package named "python-tools". Yeah that's
true intltool is not there, unfortunately. But then the only reason i see for
using intltool is sniff.glade.


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