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Printrun Internationalization
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Date: 06 August 2011
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Author: Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@.fastmail.fm>
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Printrun is in the very early stages of being internationalized.
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The pronterface.py now uses gettext for the messages it generates.
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The corresponding pronterface.pot file is at locale/pronterface.pot
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and was generated using
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pygettext -o locale/pronterface.pot pronterface.py printrun/pronterface_widgets.py
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followed by minor edits to the generated header.
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This template is the basis for all pronterface mesage catalogs. Right
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now there is only one, for German. New ones can be created:
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# Create new pronterface message catalog for a different language
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newlang="es" # use the correct code for your language
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mkdir -p locale/${newlang}/LC_MESSAGES
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cp locale/pronterface.pot locale/${newlanguage}/LC_MESSAGES/pronterface.po
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cd locale/${newlanguage}/LC_MESSAGES/
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# Edit the .po file to add messages for newlang
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msgfmt -o pronterface.mo pronterface.po
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To update a previously created message catalog from the template, use :
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msgmerge -U locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pronterface.po locale/pronterface.pot
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As currently coded, the default location for these message catalogs is
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/usr/share/pronterface/locale/
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So, to install the catalogs, copy them to there:
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sudo cp -a locale /usr/share/pronterface/
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To test pronterface in a new language, you can temporarily set LANG to
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the language you are testing, for example
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LANG=de python pronterface.py
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Further automation for localization and packaging of Printrun would be
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nice to see, but is not here yet.
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