annotate mercurial/i18n.py @ 13124:cc5f0c0c19bc stable

eol: improve help on whether EOLs are changed in working copy or repository

Improved help to make it more clear for users which changes are only
changes in the working copy and which changes that will go into the
repository (on the following commit). Futhermore a note on when the
rules will be applied to the working directory.

# 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