default gettext localedir on windows

ZeeGeek ZeeGeek at gmail.com
Sun May 4 13:56:52 EDT 2008


On May 5, 1:16 am, Thorsten Kampe <thors... at thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
> * ZeeGeek (Sun, 4 May 2008 08:59:05 -0700 (PDT))
>
> > Hi, what's the default localedir for gettext module on windows? In
> > Linux, it's /usr/share/locale. Where should I put the *.mo file in
> > order to make the translation work?
>
> %PYTHONHOME%\share\locale

I tried moving the *.mo file into %PYTHONHOME%\share\locale\zh_CN
\LC_MESSAGES, but still no luck. The following is the code snippet I
use:

import gettext
gettext.install('testprogram', unicode = True)



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