[issue8502] proposal: encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py in gettext docs

2010-04-22 Thread jhg 

New submission from jhg :

Wanting to figure out how to support multiple languages in my applications I 
read the gettext documentation and got to the part saying one should use 
pygettext.py to create .po files.

After copying that program from the python SVN repository I later found out 
that it cannot cope with plurals, i.e. ngettext(). xgettext can do that just 
fine. Since pygettext.py was not modified in 5 years I propose changing the 
documentation of gettext to encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py.

My proposed changes are attached (edited as text file; I do not know how to 
convert it to a webpage and hence did not test that).
I used the 2.7b1 documentation, but the patch appears to apply just as well to 
the 3.1.2 documentation.

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
files: gettext.txt.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 103988
nosy: georg.brandl, jhg
severity: normal
status: open
title: proposal: encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py in gettext docs
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17048/gettext.txt.patch

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[issue8502] proposal: encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py in gettext docs

2010-06-11 Thread jhg 

jhg  added the comment:

It looks like msgfmt.py now parses 'msgid_plural' but pygettext.py does not 
produce these. It is still oblivious to plurals as produced by ngettext(). My 
originally proposed change to the documentation was to point people to the GNU 
xgettext/msgfmt tools rather than the pygettext.py/msgfmt.py pair because of 
this limitation.

This has not changed.

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[issue8502] proposal: encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py in gettext docs

2010-06-11 Thread jhg 

jhg  added the comment:

Since the GNU tools work fine I had no reason to look into pygettext.py.
Now I did it anyway...

I added ngettext to the default keywords.
Any function that is keyworded and supplied more than 2 keywords is treated 
like ngettext.
Also simple constructs like _("foo" + 10*"bar") are now possible.

Patch attached.

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[issue8502] proposal: encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py in gettext docs

2010-06-11 Thread jhg 

jhg  added the comment:

A simple test case for the earlier changes.

run pygettext.py and msgfmt.py and move the .mo file to 
./locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/helloworld.mo 
to see that it prints the localized strings.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17640/helloworld.py

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