[sugar] Question about internationalization on sugar-jhbuild

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi,

from that strace log, seems like gettext thinks you are in the en
locale, right? How are you running your activity?

Regards,

Tomeu

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Faisal Anwar <fanwar at mediamods.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to set up some simple internationalization on a sugar activity
> but am running in to problems. I am specifically using sugar-jhbuild and
> launching it with 'LANG=es ./sugar-jhbuild run' command when I want to test
> my internationalization out. Here are the steps I have followed (I used
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_i18n and
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/Testing to guide me):
>
> 1. First, I created a directory within my activity (a simple shell fo an
> activity which I have called Annotate.activity) called 'po' and I went in to
> that directory.
> 2. In Annotate.activity/po, I created a POTFILES.in file and put the
> following text:
>
> encoding: UTF-8
> annotateactivity.py
>
> 3. I launched sugar-jhbuild and went in to the terminal, where I ran 'python
> setup.py genpot' from the Annotate.activity directory. This generated an
> 'Annotate.pot' file. I went in to Annotate.pot and added some translations
> for strings that I knew would need translating in my program (one specific
> one was a from a print statement where the string is wrapped in _()).
>
> 4. Still in sugar-jhbuild's terminal, I ran 'msginit -l es' which generated
> a file called 'es.po'.
>
> 5. finally, I did 'msgfmt -o
> ../locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo es.po' to generate
> the mo file and place it within the right directory for spanish (the
> directory path is similar to the one I found for Web.activity, whose
> translations are working fine).
>
> After doing all this, I restarted sugar-jhbuild by using 'LANG=es
> ./sugar-jhbuild run' . I can see other activities have text translated, but
> my activity is not translating the text that I wrapped in _() and was
> printing out. I checked the source file and I am using gettext (importing it
> as _ and then using the wrapper in the print statement I want translated).
>
> Someone suggested trying to do an strace to see what was happening. I did
> this and found the following in the portion of the log where it has any
> reference to the string I want translated:
>
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be
> translated
> ) = 33
>
> 1
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 2
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 3
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 4
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 5 write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be
> translated
> 6 ) = 33
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be
> translated
> ) = 33
>
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be
> translated
> ) = 33
>
> 1
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 2
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 3
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 4
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 5 write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be
> translated
> 6 ) = 33
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> stat("/home/fanwar/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/activities/Annotate.activity/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/org.laptop.AnnotateActivity.mo",
> 0x7fffa41f75d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(1, "hello world should be translated"..., 33hello world should be
> translated
> ) = 33
>
> I would greatly appreciate any feedback on why translation is not working
> here.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Faisal
>
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