default gettext localedir on windows

[Thorsten Kampe]

* ZeeGeek (Tue, 20 May 2008 09:31:27 -0700 (PDT))
> On May 17, 8:39 pm, Thorsten Kampe <thors... at thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
> > * ZeeGeek (Sun, 4 May 2008 10:56:52 -0700 (PDT))
> > > 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)
> >
> > The syntax is correct. Is the test program localised under Linux or
> > Cygwin? If not then the error is somewhere in your application.
> 
> Yes, it's localized under linux.
> 
> > How did you try to set the language on Windows? It works for me on Vista
> > with "set LANG=de" or "set LANGUAGE=de" while I think under XP it had to
> > be "set LANG=de_DE" (LANGUAGE or de alone did not work if I remember
> > correctly).
> 
> I'm using Simplified Chinese Windows, so I didn't set anything
> specifically before firing up the program. I found that if I use
> gettext.GNUTranslations to read in the .mo file, then it's localized.
> But gettext.install doesn't work.

Well, then why don't you set the environment variable for testing!?

T.