[I18n-sig] Re: gettext in the standard library

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin von Loewis wrote:
> 
> > Problems would arise if the source strings were recoded, between string
> > extraction by POT tools, and string usage for translation at run-time.
> > Python will likely "internalise" or convert Unicode strings from UTF-8,
> > and this is a change of representation.
> 
> Currently, to put Unicode strings into source code, you'll have to use
> \u escapes in your source(e.g. print u"\u263A"). I'm not aware of any
> editor that transparently displays these beasts.

You could wrap the decoding processing into the _ function:

def _(s):
    return unicode(s, "utf-8")

This would allow you not only to use translatable strings,
but also any unicode string encoding you like, e.g. utf-8
or latin1.

Once the "declare" statement is in place you should also be
able to write:

declare encoding = "utf-8"

... u"utf-8 encoded string" ...

in Python source code.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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