Hi, I try to learn gettext and python. This is the simple program #simplehello.py import locale import gettext
APP = 'simplehello' DIR = 'locale' locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') gettext.bindtextdomain(APP, DIR) gettext.textdomain(APP) _ = gettext.gettext print _('Hello World') After that I do this in my shell: $ xgettext -k_ -kN_ -o messages.pot simplehello.py $ cp messages.pot de.po Edit the de.po so it will be like this: <snip> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #: simplehello.py:11 msgid "Hello World" msgstr "blabla" Then... $ msgfmt de.po -o locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/simplehello.mo $ msgfmt de.po -o locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/simplehello.mo $ msgfmt de.po -o locale/de_DE.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/simplehello.mo I try to run the application: $ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 python simplehello.py The output is still 'Hello World' not 'blabla'. What's wrong? Additional facts: $ locale -a C de_AT.utf8 de_BE.utf8 de_CH.utf8 de_DE.utf8 de_LU.utf8 en_AU.utf8 <snip> $ LANG=de_DE python simplehello.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "simplehello.py", line 6, in ? locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list