[Grok-dev] Internationalisation, is the howto current?

[Tim Cook]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:27 +0100, Vincent Fretin wrote:
> I don't know very well how to use zope.i18n.translate.

Use bin/i18nextract  it will place your .pot file in the locales
directory


> 
> You should have locales/en/LC_MESSAGES/MyDomain.po with
> msgid "my_msgid"
> msgstr "something"


Actually your default language directory should not have a .po file at
all. It will be LOCALES/en for English This tells the system to fall
back to the text in the code. At least if you used:

from zope.i18nmessageid import MessageFactory
_ = MessageFactory('<translate_domain_name>')

Then in your interfaces or other places you did this:

rmAttributeName=TextLine(
    title=_(u"RM Attribute Name"),
    description=_(u"Reference model attribute within the enclosed type
representedby a CObject."),
)
 
existence=Int(
    title=_(u"Existence"),
    description=_(u"Indicates whether the target object exists or
not."),
)
 
<sorry for the wrapped descriptions>

so your message factory is named '_' (by convention) 

HTH,
Tim



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