gettext again

[stasz]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:56:35 +0200, cantabile wrote:

> stasz a écrit :
>> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:33:21 +0200, cantabile wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>stasz a écrit :
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:09:14 +0200, cantabile wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>I'm failing to make it work but can't find out what's wrong. Here's what 
>>>>>I do :
>>>>
>>>>[....]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>How come ? What's wrong with what I am doing ?
>>>>
>>>>Start with this little howto about gettext.
>>>>http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/translate-howto.html
>>>>
>>>>And then do this in your test.py:
>>>>http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/node330.html
>>>>
>>>>You should read the part about gettext in the Python Library Reference
>>>>it's really good :-)
>>>>
>>>>Good luck,
>>>>Stas Z
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Well, I must be dumb, because I did exactly that and it still doesn't 
>>>work...
>>>
>>>BTW, I have no pygettext module. I asked here and somebody said it was 
>>>deprecated and now included in xgettext.
>>>And I've read the Python doc about gettext about ten times, but it seems 
>>>quite outdated since it calls pygettext (as staded above)...
>>>
>>>I've read the info pages of gettext too (quite a long work).
>> 
>> Ok, you should use xgettext to create a .po file from your test1.py.
>> Translate that file and use msgfmt to compile it into a .mo file.
>> Copy this .mo file to /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/
>>  
>> 
>>>Here's my test1.py file again :
>>>
>>>===========================
>>>import gettext, os, locale
>>>
>>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL)
>>>gettext.install('test1.py', '/usr/share/locale')
>> 
>> test1.py is wrong, you must give the name of the .mo file.
>> It must be:  gettext.install('test1.mo', '/usr/share/locale')
>> Assuming you have called the mo file like that.
>> 
>> Stas Z
>> 
>> 
> 
> Well, I did this exactly... and still no go.
> 
> Is this sequence correct :
> 1° xgettext test1.py
> 2° mv messages.po messages.pot
> 3° msginit
> 4° Translate msgstr"" in fr_FR at euro.po file
> 5° msgfmt -o test1.mo fr_FR at euro.po
> 6° cp test1.mo /usr/share/locale/LC_MESSAGES
> 7° python test1.py
> 
> 
> This is what I did, without success. Must be bewitched :((
Your steps seems alright.
Just a thought; you do start test1.py from a fr_FR at euro
environment do you?
I mean in a xterm do: export LANG=fr_FR at euro
And then start test1.py from there.

Stas