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1 ==================
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2 Developing Roundup
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3 ==================
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7 Roundup code. If you just wish to alter some behavior of your Roundup
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8 installation, see `Customising Roundup`_.
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16 Getting Started
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17 ---------------
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19 If you are looking for a good first issue, search for `StarterTicket
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20 on https://issues.roundup-tracker.org`_. These include issues where
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21 Python development, documentation or web design skills are useful.
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23 You can continue the conversation using the issue or join the
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24 Roundup-devel list to get assistance and verify your planned changes.
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26 All development is coordinated through two resources:
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28 - roundup-devel mailing list at
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29 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
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30 - The issue tracker running at
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33 In addition, the Roundup IRC channel on irc.oftc.net can be accessed
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34 via the web interface shown on the Contact page. The channel is logged
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39 Anyone wishing to help in the development of the Roundup Python core
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40 may find `Roundup's Design Document`_ and the `implementation notes`_
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43 People working on Documentation or designing changes to the Web
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44 interface don't need to get into the implementation internals.
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46 Project Rules
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49 Be polite to others. There is no place for ad hominem attacks.
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51 Mostly the project follows Guido's Python Style (though naming tends
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60 least we know where there's missing documentation) and
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61 changes to tracker configuration must be logged in the
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62 upgrading document.
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63 - discuss any changes with the other developers on
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64 roundup-dev. If nothing else, this makes sure there's no
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65 rude shocks.
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67 and ensure that all unit tests run before committing
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70 - if you have direct commit access to the repository,
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71 subscribe to roundup-checkins to receive checkin
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72 notifications from the other developers with write access
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73 to the source-code repository.
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75 The goal is to have no flake8 issues. Current code has
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76 complex functions, some long lines and use of mutable
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77 objects in function signatures. Some third party code
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78 (e.g. ZPT) vendored into the codebase has more issues.
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80 The administrators of the project reserve the right to boot
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81 developers who consistently check in code which is either
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82 broken or takes the codebase in directions that have not
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83 been agreed to.
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85 Setting up a Development Environment
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88 Roundup doesn't require any external libraries. Installing
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89 Python 3 and its core libraries is enough to get Roundup
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90 running.
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92 The easiest way to work with Roundup is to clone the
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93 repository. Roundup is developed using the `Mercurial
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94 distributed version control system (DVCS)`_ [1]_. It is
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95 `hosted at Sourceforge`_. See
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98 If you are used to git, Mercurial's `command equivalence
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99 table`_ can help. Most of the concepts from git (except for
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100 staging) should be familiar.
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102 To clone the repository use::
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108 This will create a read only clone (you can't ``hg push``)
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109 of the repo. Changes you make can be attached as patches
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110 (created using ``hg diff``) to tickets in our `issue
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111 tracker`_.
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113 See https://www.roundup-tracker.org/code.html for URL's and
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114 directions on getting read write access which allows pushing
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115 to the repository.
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117 Once you have your clone, you can run ``python3 ./demo -b
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118 sqlite`` and get a working Roundup server. This will start
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119 the server using the ``sqlite`` backend. The code is in the
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120 ``roundup`` subdirectory.
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122 To test internationalization in your environment, you have to
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123 process the locale sub-directory into a form that roundup's
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124 i18n code will recognize. To do this use:
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126 make -C locale local_install
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128 which will compile the ``.po`` source files into binary
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129 ``.mo`` files and install them under
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130 ``locale/locale/<LANGUAGE_CODE>/LC_MESSAGES/roundup.mo``. For
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132 ``locale/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/roundup.mo``.
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134 By default this requires ``msgfmt`` from the the GNU gettext tools
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135 installed on your system. If you do not have ``msgfmt`` installed, you
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138 make -C locale local_install MSGFMT="python3 ../roundup/msgfmt.py"
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140 Also to compile a single .po file, you can invoke ``python
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141 roundup/msgfmt.py po_file mo_file`` to compile your .po file to a .mo
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211 All docs are written using sphinx. Use pip or your package manager to
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216 <path_to_requirements_file>``.
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231 Create tests for your changes. Also run the tests in reverse to try to
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232 identify test dependencies. You can do this by creating a
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233 ``conftest.py`` in the top of the source tree and include the
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241 The full test suite can take a while to run. The `pytest-testmon
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242 <https://pypi.org/project/pytest-testmon/>`_ package can be installed
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243 with pip. It analyzes changes to code and run tests that test that
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245 test suite. Use it by running::
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247 python3 -m pytest -v --testmon test
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249 once over the whole test suite. Then subsequent calls will analyze the
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250 changed files/functions and run tests that cover those changes.
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252 To run some tests (test_liveserver.py, test_indexer.py, ...) you need
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255 * requests
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259 Python application and not for development, you will need to install
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284 repository, as they may be easily made from PO files).
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285 See `Compiling Message Catalogs`_ section.
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287 5. Roundup installer creates runtime locale structure on the file
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288 system, putting MO files in their appropriate places.
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289
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290 6. Runtime internationalization (_`I18N`) services use these MO files
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291 to translate program messages into language selected by current
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292 Roundup user. Roundup command line interface uses locale name
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293 set in OS environment variable ``LANGUAGE``, ``LC_ALL``,
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294 ``LC_MESSAGES``, or ``LANG`` (in that order). Roundup Web User
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295 Interface uses language selected by currently authenticated user.
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296
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297 Additional details may be found in `GNU gettext`_ and Python `gettext
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298 module`_ documentation. Additional information on ``.po`` translation
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301 `Roundup source distribution`_ includes POT and PO files for message
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302 translators, and also pre-built MO files to facilitate installations
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303 from source. Roundup binary distribution includes MO files only.
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304
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305 .. _GNU gettext:
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306
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307 GNU gettext package
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308 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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309
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310 This chapter is full of references to GNU `gettext package`_.
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311 GNU gettext is a "must have" for nearly all steps of internationalizing
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312 any program, and it's manual is definitely a recommended reading
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313 for people involved in `I18N`_.
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314
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315 There are GNU gettext ports to all major OS platforms.
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316 Windows binaries are available from `GNU mirror sites`_.
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318 Roundup does not use GNU gettext at runtime, but it's tools
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319 are used for `extracting translatable messages`_, `compiling
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320 message catalogs`_ and, optionally, for `translating messages`_.
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321
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322 Note that ``gettext`` package in some OS distributions means just
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323 runtime tools and libraries. In such cases gettext development tools
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324 are usually distributed in separate package named ``gettext-devel``.
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325
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326 Marking Strings for Translation
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327 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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329 Strings that need translation must be marked in the source code.
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330 Following subsections explain how this is done in different cases.
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332 If translatable string is used as a format string, it is recommended
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333 to always use *named* format specifiers::
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335 _('Index of %(classname)s') % locals()
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336
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337 This helps translators to better understand the context of the
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338 message and, with Python formatting, remove format specifier altogether
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339 (which is sometimes useful, especially in singular cases of `Plural Forms`_).
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341 When there is more than one format specifier in the translatable
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342 format string, named format specifiers **must** be used almost always,
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343 because translation may require different order of items.
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345 It is better to *not* mark for translation strings that are not
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346 locale-dependent, as this makes it more difficult to keep track
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347 of translation completeness. For example, string ``</ol></body></html>``
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348 (in ``index()`` method of the request handler in ``roundup_server``
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349 script) has no human readable parts at all, and needs no translations.
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350 Such strings are left untranslated in PO files, and are reported
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351 as such by PO status checkers (e.g. ``msgfmt --statistics``).
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352
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353 Hints for the translator can be added by adding a comment block
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354 starting with ``# .Hint``. The hints will be extracted into the .pot
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355 file and merged to the .po files used by the translators. This can add
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356 context to how the string is used. For example from admin.py::
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357
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358 # .Hint read as: assignedto was admin(1)
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359 # where assignedto is the property
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360 # admin is the key name for value 1
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361 _("%(prop)s was %(name)s(%(value)s)")
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362
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363 is shown in the .po file as::
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365 #. .Hint read as: assignedto was admin(1)
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366 #. where assignedto is the property
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367 #. admin is the key name for value 1
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368 #: ../roundup/admin.py:1091
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369 #, python-format
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370 msgid "%(prop)s was %(name)s(%(value)s)"
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371 msgstr ""
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372
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373 allowing the translator to see the replaced string so they can
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374 understand how name and value are used.
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375
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376 Command Line Interfaces
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377 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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379 Scripts and routines run from the command line use "static" language
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380 defined by environment variables recognized by ``gettext`` module
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381 from Python library (``LANGUAGE``, ``LC_ALL``, ``LC_MESSAGES``, and
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382 ``LANG``). Primarily, these are ``roundup-admin`` script and
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383 ``admin.py`` module, but also help texts and startup error messages
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384 in other scripts and their supporting modules.
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386 For these interfaces, Python ``gettext`` engine must be initialized
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387 to use Roundup message catalogs. This is normally done by including
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388 the following line in the module imports::
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389
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390 from i18n import _, ngettext
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392 Simple translations are automatically marked by calls to builtin
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393 message translation function ``_()``::
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394
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395 print(_("This message is translated"))
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397 Translations for messages whose grammatical depends on a number
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398 must be done by ``ngettext()`` function::
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400 print(ngettext("Nuked %i file", "Nuked %i files", number_of_files_nuked))
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402 Deferred Translations
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405 Sometimes translatable strings appear in the source code in untranslated
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406 form [#note_admin.py]_ and must be translated elsewhere.
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407 Example::
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409 for meal in ("spam", "egg", "bacon"):
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410 print(_(meal))
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412 In such cases, strings must be marked for translation without actual
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413 call to the translating function. To mark these strings, we use Python
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414 feature of automatic concatenation of adjacent strings and different
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415 types of string quotes::
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417 strings_to_translate = (
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418 ''"This string will be translated",
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419 ""'me too',
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420 ''r"\raw string",
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421 ''"""
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422 multiline string"""
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423 )
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425 .. [#note_admin.py] In current Roundup sources, this feature is
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427 as help messages.
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429 Web User Interface
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430 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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431
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432 For Web User Interface, translation services are provided by Client
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433 object. Action classes have methods ``_()`` and ``gettext()``,
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434 delegating translation to the Client instance. In HTML templates,
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435 translator object is available as context variable ``i18n``.
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436
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437 HTML templates have special markup for translatable strings.
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438 The syntax for this markup is discussed at `ZPTInternationalization`_.
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439 (Originally documented at
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440 http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/ZPTInternationalizationSupport
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441 which is now gone.)
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442 Roundup translation service currently ignores values for
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443 ``i18n:domain``, ``i18n:source`` and ``i18n:target``.
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444
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445 Template markup examples:
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446
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447 * simplest case::
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448
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449 <div i18n:translate="">
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450 Say
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451 no
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452 more!
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453 </div>
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454
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455 this will result in msgid ``"Say no more!"``, with all leading and
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456 trailing whitespace stripped, and inner blanks replaced with single
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457 space character.
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458
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459 * using variable slots::
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460
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461 <div i18n:translate="">
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462 And now...<br/>
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463 No.<span tal:replace="number" i18n:name="slideNo" /><br/>
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464 THE LARCH
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465 </div>
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466
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467 Msgid will be: ``"And now...<br /> No.${slideNo}<br /> THE LARCH"``.
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468 Template rendering will use context variable ``number`` (you may use
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469 any expression) to put instead of ``${slideNo}`` in translation.
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470
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471 * attribute translation::
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472
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473 <button name="btn_wink" value=" Wink " i18n:attributes="value" />
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474
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475 will translate the caption (and return value) for the "wink" button.
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476
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477 * explicit msgids. Sometimes it may be useful to specify msgid
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479
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480 <span i18n:translate="know what i mean?">this text is ignored</span>
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481
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482 When rendered, element contents will be replaced by translation
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483 of the string specified in ``i18n:translate`` attribute.
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484
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485 * ``i18n`` in `TALES`_. You may translate strings in `TALES`_ python
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486 expressions::
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487
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488 <span tal:replace="python: i18n.gettext('Oh, wicked.')" />
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489
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490 * plural forms. There is no markup for plural forms in `TAL`_ i18n.
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491 You must use python expression for that::
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492
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493 <span tal:replace="python: i18n.ngettext(
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494 'Oh but it\'s only %i shilling.',
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495 'Oh but it\'s only %i shillings.',
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496 fine) % fine"
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497 />
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499 Detectors and extensions
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500 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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502 The correct ``i18n`` objects gets automatically injected in the hyperdb.
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503 In a detector you can access the i18n object and do translation like
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504 this::
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505
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506 def statusfail(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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507 _ = db.i18n.gettext
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508 raise ValueError(_("this does not work"))
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509
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510 def init(db):
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511 # fire before changes are made
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512 db.status.audit('create', statusfail)
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513
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514 .. index::
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515 i18n; adding translations for your tracker
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516 see: internatonalization; i18n
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517 see: localization; i18n
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518
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519 Extracting Translatable Messages
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520 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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522 The most common tool for message extraction is ``xgettext`` utility
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523 from `GNU gettext package`_. Unfortunately, this utility has no means
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524 of `Deferred Translations`_ in Python sources. There is ``xpot`` tool
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525 from Francois Pinard free `PO utilities`_ that allows to mark strings
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526 for deferred translations, but it does not handle `plural forms`_.
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528 Roundup overcomes these limitations by using both of these utilities.
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529 This means that you need both `GNU gettext`_ tools and `PO utilities`_
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530 to build the Message Template File yourself.
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532 Latest Message Template File is kept in the source code repository
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533 and distributed with `Roundup Source`_.
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534 If you wish to rebuild the template yourself,
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535 make sure that you have both ``xpot`` and ``xgettext`` installed and
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536 just run ``gmake`` (or ``make``, if you are on a `GNU`_ system like
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537 `linux`_ or `cygwin`_) in the ``locale`` directory.
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539 For on-site i18n, Roundup provides command-line utility::
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541 roundup-gettext <tracker_home>
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542
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543 extracting translatable messages from tracker's html templates.
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544 This utility creates message template file ``messages.pot`` in
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545 ``locale`` subdirectory of the tracker home directory. Translated
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546 messages may be put in *locale*.po files (where *locale* is selected
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547 locale name) in the same directory, e.g.: ``locale/ru.po``.
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548 These message catalogs are searched prior to system-wide translations
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549 kept in the ``share`` directory.
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550
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551 If you are creating your own ``.po`` file from scratch rather than
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552 using ``roundup-gettext``, you must have the minimal preamble
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553 specifying the format of the file. This::
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554
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555 msgid ""
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556 msgstr ""
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557 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
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558
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559 should be present as the first translatable string in your .po file.
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560 If you use ``roundup-gettext`` it will add a full preamble including
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561 ``Content-Type``. If the preamble is missing, using characters outside
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562 of the ASCII range will cause Roundup to crash with a
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563 UnicodeDecodeError.
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564
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565 Translating Messages
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566 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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567
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568 Gettext Message File (`PO`_ file) is a plain text file, that can be created
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569 by simple copying ``roundup.pot`` to new .po file, like this::
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570
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571 $ cp roundup.pot ru.po
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572
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573 The name of PO file is target locale name, usually just 2-letter language
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574 code (``ru`` for Russian in the above example). Alternatively, PO file
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575 may be initialized by ``msginit`` utility from `GNU gettext`_ tools::
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576
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577 $ msginit -i roundup.pot
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578
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579 ``msginit`` will check your current locale, and initialize the header
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580 entry, setting language name, rules for `plural forms`_ and, if available,
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581 translator's name and email address. The name for PO file is also chosen
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582 based on current locale.
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583
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584 Next, you will need to edit this file, filling all ``msgstr`` lines with
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585 translations of the above ``msgid`` entries. PO file is a plain text
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586 file that can be edited with any text editor. However, there are several
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587 tools that may help you with this process:
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588
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589 - `poEdit`_ by Vaclav Slavik. Very nice cross-platform GUI editor.
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590
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591 - `Lokalize`_. A replacement for KBabel. Being part of `KDE`_, it
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592 works in X windows only. Haven't had much experience with it, though.
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593
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594 - ``po-mode`` for `emacs`_. One of `GNU gettext`_ tools. Very handy,
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595 definitely recommended if you are comfortable with emacs. Cannot
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596 handle `plural forms`_ per se, but allows to edit them in simple
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597 text mode.
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598
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599 - `po filetype plugin`_ for `vim`_. Does not do as much as ``po-mode``,
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600 but helps in finding untranslated and fuzzy strings, and checking
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601 code references. Please contact `alexander smishlajev`_ if you
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602 prefer this, as i have patched this plugin a bit. I have also
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603 informed the original plugin author about these changes, but got
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604 no reply so far.
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605
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606 Additional information on ``.po`` files can be found at pology_.
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607
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608 Compiling Message Catalogs
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609 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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610
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611 Message catalogs (`PO`_ files) must be compiled into binary form
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612 (`MO`_ files) before they can be used in the application. This
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613 compilation is handled by ``msgfmt`` utility from `GNU gettext`_
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614 tools. ``GNUmakefile`` in the ``locale`` directory automatically
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615 compiles all existing message catalogs after updating them from
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616 Roundup source files. If you wish to rebuild an individual `MO`_
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617 file without making everything else, you may, for example::
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618
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619 $ msgfmt --statistics -o ru.mo ru.po
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620
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621 This way, message translators can check their `PO`_ files without
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622 extracting strings from source. (Note: String extraction requires
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623 additional utility that is not part of `GNU gettext`_. See `Extracting
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624 Translatable Messages`_.)
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625
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626 At run time, Roundup automatically compiles message catalogs whenever
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627 `PO`_ file is changed.
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628
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629 .. [1] Roundup is written in Python and we believe in using tools in
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630 the Python ecosystem whenever possible.
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634 .. _`Customising Roundup`: customizing.html
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635 .. _`Roundup's Design Document`: spec.html
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636 .. _`implementation notes`: implementation.html
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639 .. _External hyperlink targets:
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641 .. _alexander smishlajev:
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642 .. _als: https://sourceforge.net/u/a1s/profile/
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643 .. _CodeCov: https://app.codecov.io/gh/roundup-tracker/roundup
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644 .. _copy of the mercurial repository on GitHub:
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645 https://github.com/roundup-tracker/roundup
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646 .. _command equivalence table: https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/GitConcepts#Command_equivalence_table
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647 .. _Coveralls: https://coveralls.io/github/roundup-tracker/roundup
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648 .. _cygwin: https://www.cygwin.com/
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649 .. _emacs: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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650 .. _flake8: https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/
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651 .. _gettext package: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
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652 .. _gettext module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/gettext.html
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653 .. _GitHub Actions: https://github.com/roundup-tracker/roundup/actions
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654 .. _GNU: https://www.gnu.org/
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655 .. _GNU mirror sites: https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
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656 .. _hosted at sourceforge:
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657 https://sourceforge.net/p/roundup/code/ci/default/tree/
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658 .. _issue tracker: https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/
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659 .. _Lokalize: https://apps.kde.org/lokalize/
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660 .. _KDE: https://kde.org/
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661 .. _linux: https://www.linux.org/
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662 .. _Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS):
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663 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
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664 .. _Plural Forms:
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665 https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
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666 .. _po filetype plugin:
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667 https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=64
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668 .. _PO utilities: https://github.com/pinard/po-utils
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669 .. _poEdit: https://poedit.net/
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670 .. _pology: http://pology.nedohodnik.net/doc/user/en_US/ch-poformat.html
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671 .. _pylint: https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/
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672 .. _Roundup Source:
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673 .. _Roundup source distribution:
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674 .. _Roundup binary distribution:
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675 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/files/
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676 .. _roundup-devel mailing list:
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677 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
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678 .. _StarterTicket on https://issues.roundup-tracker.org:
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679 https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,status&@sort=activity&@filter=status,keywords&status=-1,1,2&keywords=15&@dispname=Starter%20tickets
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680 .. _TAL:
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681 .. _Template Attribute Language:
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682 https://pagetemplates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history/TALSpecification14.html
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683 .. _TALES:
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684 .. _Template Attribute Language Expression Syntax:
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685 https://pagetemplates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history/TALESSpecification13.html
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686 .. _TravisCI: https://app.travis-ci.com/github/roundup-tracker/roundup
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687 .. _vim: https://www.vim.org/
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688 .. _ZPTInternationalization: https://web.archive.org/web/20120804003011/http://grok.zope.org/doc/community/view_generation/i18n_of_your_app.html
Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/