I18n issue with optik

[Steven Bethard]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Steven Bethard (Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:08:45 -0600)
>> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>> I've written a script which uses Optik/Optparse to display the 
>>> options (which works fine). The text for the help message is localised 
>>> (with german umlauts) and when I execute the script with the localised 
>>> environment variable set, I get this traceback[1]. The interesting 
>>> thing is that the localised optparse messages from displays fine - 
>>> it's only my localisation that errors.
>>>
>>> From my understanding, my script doesn't put out anything, it's 
>>> optik/optparse who does that. My po file is directly copied from the 
>>> optik po file (who displays fine) and modified so the po file should 
>>> be fine, too.
>>>
>>> What can I do to troubleshoot whether the culprit is my script, optik 
>>> or gettext?
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to post the script and the mo or po files?
>> Yes, probably.  Though if you can reduce it to the simplest test case 
>> that produces the error, it'll increase your chances of having someone 
>> look at it.
> 
> The most simple test.py is:
> 
> ###
> #! /usr/bin/env python
> 
> import gettext, \
>        os,      \
>        sys
> 
> gettext.textdomain('optparse')
> gettext.install('test')
> 
> from optparse import OptionParser, \
>                      OptionGroup
> 
> cmdlineparser = OptionParser(description = _('THIS SOFTWARE COMES 
> WITHOUT WARRANTY, LIABILITY OR SUPPORT!'))
> 
> options, args = cmdlineparser.parse_args()
> ###
> 
> When I run LANGUAGE=de ./test.py --help I get the error.
> 
> ### This is the test.de.po file
> # Copyright (C) 2006 Thorsten Kampe
> # Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de>, 2006
> 
> msgid  ""
> msgstr ""
> 
> "Project-Id-Version: Template 1.0\n"
> "POT-Creation-Date: Tue Sep  7 22:20:34 2004\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: 2005-07-03 16:47+0200\n"
> "Last-Translator: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de>\n"
> "Language-Team: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de>\n"
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15\n"
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8-bit\n"
> "Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"
> 
> msgid  "THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITHOUT WARRANTY, LIABILITY OR SUPPORT!"
> msgstr "DIESES PROGRAMM HAT WEDER GEWÄHRLEISTUNG, HAFTUNG NOCH 
> UNTERSTÜTZUNG!"
> ###
> 
> The localisation now produces an error in the localised optik files, 
> too.
> 
> Under Windows I get " File "G:\program files\python\lib\encodings
> \cp1252.py", line 12, in encode
>    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)"

I'm not very experienced with internationalization, but if you change::

     gettext.install('test')

to::

     gettext.install('test', unicode=True)

what happens?

STeVe