view mercurial/i18n.py @ 9485:7d6ac5d7917c

test-gendoc: add tests for all languages

This ensures that we catch errors in the reST syntax early and for all
languages. The only change needed in gendoc.py was to correct the
computation of section underlines for Asian languages.

# 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, incorporated herein by reference.

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.normpath(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

    u = t.ugettext(message)
    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

_ = gettext