Re: [Gramps-devel] languages in gramps40

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:40 PM, John Ralls <jr...@ce...> wrote:
>
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Doug Blank <dou...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Devs,
>>
>> Getting back into the swing of things and I have a couple of questions
>> about languages in gramps40:
>>
>> 1) When I run "python Gramps.py" I get the dialog "Gramps detected an
>> incomplete GTK installation. GTK translations for the current language
>> (en_US) are missing." I did the "python setup.py build" but why would
>> I need a translation file for English anyway? I get the same dialog in
>> trunk. I can continue, but this makes me think something is wrong.
>
> Something *is* wrong. Gtk supplies an gtk.mo in the 'en' locale, and you don't have it.
> It's pretty trivial now: The only translations are for keyboard labels (e.g., msgid "XF86WebCam"
> msgstr "Web Cam"). But it should be there and if it isn't it might indicate some other
> problem with your installation. Or you might just be using Ubuntu.
>
> This bit Vassilii a few months ago. He uses Ubuntu and they've apparently decided to
> separate localizations into separate packages called "Language Packs" rather than
> installing the localizations as part of the package which provides them.

Thanks, yes, I am running Ubuntu. That was enough of a hint to try a
few language packages until I found the right one:

sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-en

>> 2) I am trying to use gramps outside of the Gtk application. Sometimes
>> languages == ['en'] when calling a second GrampsLocale() in
>> gramps/gen/utils/grampslocale.py and that causes issues with this
>> code:
>>
>>        if languages:
>>            self.language = [x for x in [self.check_available_translations(l)
>>                                         for l in languages.split(":")]
>>                             if x]
>>
>> But languages is a list, and so it is an error to call .split() on it.
>> I think the .split() should be someplace else.
>
> Why do you think that the languages parameter is a list?

Because it was a list :) The second time that a GrampsLocale was
created, languages was a list containing ["en"]. I see now that there
is a line in gramps/webapp/utils.py that manually sets this which was
added in:

https://sourceforge.net/p/gramps/code/22027/

> From the class DocString:
>  "@languages: String with a ':'-separated list of two or five character codes corresponding to subidrectries in the localedir, e.g.: "fr" or "zh_CN".
>
> It's designed to take the value of os.environ['LANGUAGE'] directly.

Ok, so I think that it was just a typo, or perhaps leftover from a
previous interface. I'll fix that. Thanks!

-Doug

> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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