[sugar] Question about internationalization on sugar-jhbuild

Thu Jul 3 04:38:51 EDT 2008

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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