Bugs item #516412, was opened at 2002-02-12 16:01 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nshmyrev You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=516412&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.3 Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Christian Reis (kiko_async) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Python gettext doesn't support libglade Initial Comment: Libglade is a library that parses XML and generates GTK-based UIs in runtime. It is written in C and supports a number of languages through bindings. James Henstridge has maintained a set of bindings for Python for some time now. These bindings work very well, _except for internationalization_. The reason seems now straightforward to me. Python's gettext.py is a pure python implementation, and because of it, bindtextdomain/textdomain are never called. This causes any C module that uses gettext to not activate the support, and not use translation because of it. Using Martin's intl.so module things work great, but it is a problem for us having to redistribute it with our application. Any other suggestions to fix? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Shmyrev Nick (nshmyrev) Date: 2006-06-15 02:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=598622 I am still seeing this with meld application meld.sourceforge.net Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 12 2006, 03:59:46) [GCC 4.1.0 20060210 (Red Hat 4.1.0-0.24)] on linux2 pygtk2-devel-2.8.4-1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2002-03-27 21:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 This is fixed with configure 1.291 configure.in 1.301 pyconfig.h.in 1.25 liblocale.tex 1.28 NEWS 1.369 _localemodule.c 2.29 Notice that applications that want to change the C library's domain bindings will have to invoke locale.bindtextdomain; I decided not to provide automatic forwarding from gettext.bindtextdomain to locale.bindtextdomain, since the C library and Python may have different message catalog formats (e.g. on Solaris); this might confuse the C library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: James Henstridge (jhenstridge) Date: 2002-02-13 05:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=146903 Some libraries (libglade in this case) translate some messages on behalf of the application (libglade translates messages in the input file using the default translation domain, or some other domain specified by the programmer). This is a case of wanting python's gettext module to cooperate with the C level gettext library. For libglade, this could be achieved by making the gettext.bindtextdomain() and gettext.textdomain() calls to call the equivalent C function in addition to what they do now. For most messages in gtk+ itself, it will use dgettext() for most messages already, so isn't a problem. The exception to this is places where it allows other libraries (or the app) to register new stock items, which get translated with a programmer specified domain. As of gettext 0.10.40, there should be no license problems, as the license for the libintl library was changed from GPL to LGPL. It should be a fairly simple to implement this; just needs a patch :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2002-02-13 04:17 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 How does gtk invoke gettext? It sounds buggy in the respect that it expects the textdomain to be set globally; a library should not do that. Instead, the right thing (IMO) would be if gtk called dgettext, using an application-supplied domain name. It would be then the matter of the Python gtk wrapper to expose the GTK APIs for setting the text domain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-02-12 16:52 Message: Logged In: NO If what you want is a way to call bindtextdomain/textdomain from Python, feel free to supply a patch or ask martin to add intl.so to the distribution. --Guido (@#$% SF always logs me out :-( ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=516412&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
