[wxPython-users] Use another or native Language

[Werner F. Bruhin]

Hi Franz,

Have you seen the wiki pages?

http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/Internationalization
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/RecipesI18n?highlight=3D%28i18n%29

Franz Steinh=E4usler wrote:

>Hi Robin,
>
>I wondered, in the Demo it worked and not in Pycrust or another applicatio=
n.
>
>So I discovered, in the already wrapped dialogs, this work,
>but if you use _("string") in Python you get:
>  =

>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>  NameError: name '_' is not defined
>  =

>
>Therefore if you try to get the translation (the wxPython wxstd.mo), =

>  you have apparantly to initialize the whole thing.
>
>Example from PyCrust:
>
>  =

>
>>>>_("&Next")
>>>>        =

>>>>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>NameError: name '_' is not defined
>  =

>
>>>>lc =3D wx.Locale(wx.LANGUAGE_DEFAULT)
>>>>_("&Next")
>>>>        =

>>>>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>NameError: name '_' is not defined
>  =

>
>>>>import os
>>>>import gettext
>>>>        =

>>>>
>... =

>  =

>
>>>>localedir =3D os.path.join(wx.__path__[0], "locale")
>>>>        =

>>>>
>... =

>  =

>
>>>>langid =3D wx.LANGUAGE_DEFAULT    # use OS default; or use LANGUAGE_JAP=
ANESE, etc.
>>>>domain =3D "wxstd"             # the translation file is messages.mo
>>>>        =

>>>>
>... =

>  =

>
>>>>mylocale =3D wx.Locale(langid)
>>>>mytranslation =3D gettext.translation(domain, localedir,
>>>>        =

>>>>
>...     [mylocale.GetCanonicalName()], fallback =3D True)
>  =

>
>>>>mytranslation.install()
>>>>        =

>>>>
>... =

>  =

>
>>>>_("&Next")
>>>>        =

>>>>
>'&Weiter'
>  =

>
>
>And I'm looking for a way to shorten this procedure.
>
>Second question:
>Ok, now the paths for the catalog for wxstd are initailized.
>  =

>I'm looking for a convenient way to initialize a catalog file:
>For example: my App starte in c:\Eigene Dateien\python\drpython\drpython.py
>
>First: what would be a convenient place to locate the .mo file?
>  =

>
convention is to store it in yourapp\locale\lang  (lang is whatever =

languages you support (de, fr etc)

>Second: is it possible to use the (untranslated) file .po directly? (it do=
esn't seem to work)
>  =

>
no, at least not that I know of.

>Third: What is the right way to initialize to use this catalog (in additio=
n to wxstd.mo)?
>
>(mo file is in the following location):
>c:\Eigene Dateien\python\drpython\locale\de\LC_MESSAGES\drpython.mo
>
>mytranslation =3D gettext.translation("drpython", os.path.abspath(os.curdi=
r) + '/locale', [mylocale.GetCanonicalName()], fallback =3D
>True)
>mytranslation.install()
>
>
>Many thanks, to Robin or whoever else can answer my question!! :)
>  =

>
See attached small sample app for I18n which I did some time ago.  Note =

that all "user" translation will switch immediately, but the "wx" =

translation you switch and have to restart the application.

Hope this helps
Werner
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