Re: [rox-devel] i18n questions

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:44:46PM -0700, Ken Hayber wrote:
> I've received two translations (.pot files) for my app and I'm trying to 
> get them working.  So far no good.
> 
> I found and read the tutorial on rox.sf.net, but I'm a little fuzzy on 
> things.
> 
> 1) I run msgfmt on the .pot file(s) and I get a messages.mo file.  Filer 
> has .gmo files.  So I tried renaming the messages.mo to it.gmo for 
> example.  But it doesn't work.  Is this not the right procedure?

In what way doesn't it work?
See the ROX-Lib2/Messages directory for a working system...

> 2) If 1) is correct more or less, I assume it is my app that is wrong. 
> I put the following after the imports in my main module (which is 
> imported by Apprun)
> 
> _ = rox.i18n.translation(os.path.join(rox.app_dir, 'Messages'))
> 
> Is there something else I have to do?

Did you set LANG to something? (eg 'LANG=fr ./AppRun' to use the fr.gmo
file).

Look in i18n.py, and see if it's finding the .gmo file too.

HTH,


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