Re: Making my application international

[Rafael Fontenelle <rafaelff gnome org>]

Hello Gustavo,

Consider setting the "gettext.bindtextdomain()" (in src/main.py, I
think) as mentioned in
https://docs.python.org/pt-br/3/library/gettext.html

If the domain name is not set, the software will look for
"messages.mo" (the translation file in machine language) instead of
the proper e.g. "font-downloader.mo".

You can verify if that's the case by searching for "messages.mo":

$ strace -o file.log <executable>  (replace if the proper executable name/path)
$ grep messages.mo file.log

Best regards,
Rafael Fontenelle

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 7:29 PM Gustavo Peredo via gnome-i18n
<gnome-i18n gnome org> wrote:
> Thank you for your answer!
>
> After reading xgettext documentation I was able to generate my .po files, I created and edited two of them: 
> en_GB and pt_BR. I added them to my /po directory and added en_GB and pt_BR to my LINGUAS file, no errors 
> were shown during compilation nor when exporting the package. I installed the app on my machine but no 
> translations were applied (My system locale is pt_BR)!
>
> Any clues on what I should do?
>
> Do you know somewhere else I can ask this question?
>
> PS: Also, you were right, many pages were outdated (were talking about GTK 2)
> Gustavo
>
> Em sáb., 26 de set. de 2020 às 13:02, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> escreveu:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 09:05 -0300, Gustavo Peredo via gnome-i18n wrote:
> > > TL; DR: How to begin translating a GTK Application using po?
> >
> > In theory: https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines
> >
> > In practice I'm not sure how heavily outdated some of those wiki pages
> > might be (meson etc). So this email might be useless in the end. :)
> >
> > andre
> > --
> > Andre Klapper  |  ak-47 gmx net
> > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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