annotate mercurial/i18n.py @ 13955:86b5cc1e8be8 stable

help config: explain that config files do not exist by default

Inspired by critique given on StackOverflow where a user writes:

  I can have a good guess at what "%USERPROFILE%" might signify but
  none of the files listed in the "hg help config" output exist after
  running the installer. Previous experience would suggest that
  missing files mean something somewhere has gone seriously wrong.

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2329023/2351139#2351139

# i18n.py - internationalization support for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

import encoding
import gettext, sys, os

# modelled after templater.templatepath:
if hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
    module = sys.executable
else:
    module = __file__

base = os.path.dirname(module)
for dir in ('.', '..'):
    localedir = os.path.join(base, dir, 'locale')
    if os.path.isdir(localedir):
        break

t = gettext.translation('hg', localedir, fallback=True)

def gettext(message):
    """Translate message.

    The message is looked up in the catalog to get a Unicode string,
    which is encoded in the local encoding before being returned.

    Important: message is restricted to characters in the encoding
    given by sys.getdefaultencoding() which is most likely 'ascii'.
    """
    # If message is None, t.ugettext will return u'None' as the
    # translation whereas our callers expect us to return None.
    if message is None:
        return message

    paragraphs = message.split('\n\n')
    # Be careful not to translate the empty string -- it holds the
    # meta data of the .po file.
    u = u'\n\n'.join([p and t.ugettext(p) or '' for p in paragraphs])
    try:
        # encoding.tolocal cannot be used since it will first try to
        # decode the Unicode string. Calling u.decode(enc) really
        # means u.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding()).decode(enc). Since
        # the Python encoding defaults to 'ascii', this fails if the
        # translated string use non-ASCII characters.
        return u.encode(encoding.encoding, "replace")
    except LookupError:
        # An unknown encoding results in a LookupError.
        return message

if 'HGPLAIN' in os.environ:
    _ = lambda message: message
else:
    _ = gettext