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issue2551075 Update jinja template to bootstrap 4. Updated to 4.1.3 (current boostrap version 4.4.1). The pull request has been around for a while. (Patch: Paul Spooner; templates merged by Christof Meerwald; other merged by John Rouillard)
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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 behaviour of your Roundup
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8 installation, see `customising roundup`_.
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15 Getting Started
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16 ---------------
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18 Anyone wishing to help in the development of Roundup must read `Roundup's
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19 Design Document`_ and the `implementation notes`_.
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21 All development is coordinated through two resources:
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23 - roundup-devel mailing list at
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24 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
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28 Website, wiki
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31 The website is in our repository, so is the configuration of the wiki.
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32 Please check the README.txt in the "website" subdirectory
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35 Issue Tracker
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38 The tracker resides on bugs.ams1.psf.io (188.166.48.69). You can also
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39 ssh to issues.roundup-tracker.org. They have the same fingerprint:
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41 ED25519 key fingerprint is f1:f7:3d:bf:3b:01:8d:e1:4e:30:b3:0f:6e:98:b8:9b.
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43 The roundup installation belongs to the user roundup.
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48 to get a python with roundup on the PYTHONPATH.
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50 The Roundup tracker https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/ is in
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57 Roundup is run using gunicorn and wsgi.
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59 You have 'sudo -u roundup' access if you need to run things as the
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60 roundup user.
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67 or download a snapshot:
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84 https://github.com/rouilj/psf-salt/commit/2aa55d0fc5a343f45f5507437d3fba077cbaf852
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86 and submit it as a pull request. Contact ewdurbin via #roundup IRC or by
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94 `issue tracker`_ or sent to `roundup-devel mailing list`_.
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100 See http://www.roundup-tracker.org/code.html.
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101 For all other questions ask on the development mailinglist.
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104 Project Rules
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107 Mostly the project follows Guido's Style (though naming tends to be a little
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120 other developers with write access to the source-code repository.
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124 all unit tests run before committing changes
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127 The administrators of the project reserve the right to boot developers who
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128 consistently check in code which is either broken or takes the codebase in
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129 directions that have not been agreed to.
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135 See :doc:`debugging <debugging>`.
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140 How stuff works:
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142 1. Strings that may require translation (messages in human language)
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143 are marked in the source code. This step is discussed in
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144 `Marking Strings for Translation`_ section.
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146 2. These strings are all extracted into Message Template File
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147 ``locale/roundup.pot`` (_`POT` file). See `Extracting Translatable
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148 Messages`_ below.
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150 3. Language teams use POT file to make Message Files for national
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151 languages (_`PO` files). All PO files for Roundup are kept in
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152 the ``locale`` directory. Names of these files are target
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153 locale names, usually just 2-letter language codes. `Translating
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154 Messages`_ section of this chapter gives useful hints for
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155 message translators.
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157 4. Translated Message Files are compiled into binary form (_`MO` files)
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160 See `Compiling Message Catalogs`_ section.
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162 5. Roundup installer creates runtime locale structure on the file
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163 system, putting MO files in their appropriate places.
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165 6. Runtime internationalization (_`I18N`) services use these MO files
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166 to translate program messages into language selected by current
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167 Roundup user. Roundup command line interface uses locale name
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168 set in OS environment variable ``LANGUAGE``, ``LC_ALL``,
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169 ``LC_MESSAGES``, or ``LANG`` (in that order). Roundup Web User
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170 Interface uses language selected by currently authenticated user.
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172 Additional details may be found in `GNU gettext`_ and Python `gettext
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173 module`_ documentation.
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175 `Roundup source distribution`_ includes POT and PO files for message
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176 translators, and also pre-built MO files to facilitate installations
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177 from source. Roundup binary distribution includes MO files only.
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179 .. _GNU gettext:
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181 GNU gettext package
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184 This chapter is full of references to GNU `gettext package`_.
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185 GNU gettext is a "must have" for nearly all steps of internationalizing
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186 any program, and it's manual is definetely a recommended reading
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187 for people involved in `I18N`_.
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189 There are GNU gettext ports to all major OS platforms.
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190 Windows binaries are available from `GNU mirror sites`_.
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192 Roundup does not use GNU gettext at runtime, but it's tools
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193 are used for `extracting translatable messages`_, `compiling
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194 message catalogs`_ and, optionally, for `translating messages`_.
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196 Note that ``gettext`` package in some OS distributions means just
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197 runtime tools and libraries. In such cases gettext development tools
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198 are usually distributed in separate package named ``gettext-devel``.
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200 Marking Strings for Translation
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201 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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203 Strings that need translation must be marked in the source code.
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204 Following subsections explain how this is done in different cases.
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206 If translatable string is used as a format string, it is recommended
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207 to always use *named* format specifiers::
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209 _('Index of %(classname)s') % locals()
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211 This helps translators to better understand the context of the
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213 (which is sometimes useful, especially in singular cases of `Plural Forms`_).
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215 When there is more than one format specifier in the translatable
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216 format string, named format specifiers **must** be used almost always,
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217 because translation may require different order of items.
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219 It is better to *not* mark for translation strings that are not
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220 locale-dependent, as this makes it more difficult to keep track
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221 of translation completeness. For example, string ``</ol></body></html>``
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222 (in ``index()`` method of the request handler in ``roundup_server``
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223 script) has no human readable parts at all, and needs no translations.
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224 Such strings are left untranslated in PO files, and are reported
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225 as such by PO status checkers (e.g. ``msgfmt --statistics``).
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227 Command Line Interfaces
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228 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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230 Scripts and routines run from the command line use "static" language
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231 defined by environment variables recognized by ``gettext`` module
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232 from Python library (``LANGUAGE``, ``LC_ALL``, ``LC_MESSAGES``, and
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233 ``LANG``). Primarilly, these are ``roundup-admin`` script and
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234 ``admin.py`` module, but also help texts and startup error messages
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235 in other scripts and their supporting modules.
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237 For these interfaces, Python ``gettext`` engine must be initialized
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238 to use Roundup message catalogs. This is normally done by including
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239 the following line in the module imports::
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241 from i18n import _, ngettext
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243 Simple translations are automatically marked by calls to builtin
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244 message translation function ``_()``::
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246 print(_("This message is translated"))
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248 Translations for messages whose grammatical depends on a number
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249 must be done by ``ngettext()`` function::
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251 print(ngettext("Nuked %i file", "Nuked %i files", number_of_files_nuked))
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253 Deferred Translations
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254 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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256 Sometimes translatable strings appear in the source code in untranslated
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257 form [#note_admin.py]_ and must be translated elsewhere.
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258 Example::
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260 for meal in ("spam", "egg", "beacon"):
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261 print(_(meal))
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263 In such cases, strings must be marked for translation without actual
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264 call to the translating function. To mark these strings, we use Python
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265 feature of automatic concatenation of adjacent strings and different
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266 types of string quotes::
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268 strings_to_translate = (
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269 ''"This string will be translated",
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270 ""'me too',
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271 ''r"\raw string",
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272 ''"""
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273 multiline string"""
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274 )
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276 .. [#note_admin.py] In current Roundup sources, this feature is
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277 extensively used in the ``admin`` module using method docstrings
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278 as help messages.
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279
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280 Web User Interface
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281 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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282
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283 For Web User Interface, translation services are provided by Client
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284 object. Action classes have methods ``_()`` and ``gettext()``,
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285 delegating translation to the Client instance. In HTML templates,
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286 translator object is available as context variable ``i18n``.
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287
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288 HTML templates have special markup for translatable strings.
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289 The syntax for this markup is defined on `ZPTInternationalizationSupport`_
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290 page. Roundup translation service currently ignores values for
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291 ``i18n:domain``, ``i18n:source`` and ``i18n:target``.
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293 Template markup examples:
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295 * simplest case::
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297 <div i18n:translate="">
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298 Say
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299 no
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300 more!
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301 </div>
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303 this will result in msgid ``"Say no more!"``, with all leading and
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304 trailing whitespace stripped, and inner blanks replaced with single
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305 space character.
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306
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307 * using variable slots::
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309 <div i18n:translate="">
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310 And now...<br/>
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311 No.<span tal:replace="number" i18n:name="slideNo" /><br/>
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312 THE LARCH
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313 </div>
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315 Msgid will be: ``"And now...<br /> No.${slideNo}<br /> THE LARCH"``.
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316 Template rendering will use context variable ``number`` (you may use
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317 any expression) to put instead of ``${slideNo}`` in translation.
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319 * attribute translation::
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321 <button name="btn_wink" value=" Wink " i18n:attributes="value" />
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323 will translate the caption (and return value) for the "wink" button.
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324
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325 * explicit msgids. Sometimes it may be useful to specify msgid
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326 for the element translation explicitely, like this::
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327
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328 <span i18n:translate="know what i mean?">this text is ignored</span>
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329
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330 When rendered, element contents will be replaced by translation
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331 of the string specified in ``i18n:translate`` attribute.
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333 * ``i18n`` in `TALES`_. You may translate strings in `TALES`_ python
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334 expressions::
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335
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336 <span tal:replace="python: i18n.gettext('Oh, wicked.')" />
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337
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338 * plural forms. There is no markup for plural forms in `TAL`_ i18n.
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339 You must use python expression for that::
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341 <span tal:replace="python: i18n.ngettext(
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342 'Oh but it\'s only %i shilling.',
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343 'Oh but it\'s only %i shillings.',
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344 fine) % fine"
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345 />
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347 Extracting Translatable Messages
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348 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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350 The most common tool for message extraction is ``xgettext`` utility
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351 from `GNU gettext package`_. Unfortunately, this utility has no means
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352 of `Deferred Translations`_ in Python sources. There is ``xpot`` tool
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353 from Francois Pinard free `PO utilities`_ that allows to mark strings
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354 for deferred translations, but it does not handle `plural forms`_.
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356 Roundup overcomes these limitations by using both of these utilities.
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357 This means that you need both `GNU gettext`_ tools and `PO utilities`_
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358 to build the Message Template File yourself.
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360 Latest Message Template File is kept in the source code repository
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361 and distributed with `Roundup Source`_.
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363 make sure that you have both ``xpot`` and ``xgettext`` installed and
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364 just run ``gmake`` (or ``make``, if you are on a `GNU`_ system like
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365 `linux`_ or `cygwin`_) in the ``locale`` directory.
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367 For on-site i18n, Roundup provides command-line utility::
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368
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369 roundup-gettext <tracker_home>
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371 extracting translatable messages from tracker's html templates.
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372 This utility creates message template file ``messages.pot`` in
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373 ``locale`` subdirectory of the tracker home directory. Translated
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374 messages may be put in *locale*.po files (where *locale* is selected
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376 These message catalogs are searched prior to system-wide translations
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377 kept in the ``share`` directory.
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379 Translating Messages
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380 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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382 Gettext Message File (`PO`_ file) is a plain text file, that can be created
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383 by simple copying ``roundup.pot`` to new .po file, like this::
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385 $ cp roundup.pot ru.po
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387 The name of PO file is target locale name, usually just 2-letter language
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388 code (``ru`` for Russian in the above example). Alternatively, PO file
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389 may be initialized by ``msginit`` utility from `GNU gettext`_ tools::
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391 $ msginit -i roundup.pot
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393 ``msginit`` will check your current locale, and initialize the header
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395 translator's name and email address. The name for PO file is also chosen
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396 based on current locale.
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398 Next, you will need to edit this file, filling all ``msgstr`` lines with
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399 translations of the above ``msgid`` entries. PO file is a plain text
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400 file that can be edited with any text editor. However, there are several
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401 tools that may help you with this process:
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403 - `poEdit`_ by Vaclav Slavik. Very nice cross-platform GUI editor.
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405 - `Lokalize`_. A replacement for KBabel. Being part of `KDE`_, it
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408 - ``po-mode`` for `emacs`_. One of `GNU gettext`_ tools. Very handy,
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409 definitely recommended if you are comfortable with emacs. Cannot
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410 handle `plural forms`_ per se, but allows to edit them in simple
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411 text mode.
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413 - `po filetype plugin`_ for `vim`_. Does not do as much as ``po-mode``,
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414 but helps in finding untranslated and fuzzy strings, and checking
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415 code references. Please contact `alexander smishlajev`_ if you
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416 prefer this, as i have patched this plugin a bit. I have also
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417 informed the original plugin author about these changes, but got
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418 no reply so far.
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420 Compiling Message Catalogs
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421 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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423 Message catalogs (`PO`_ files) must be compiled into binary form
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424 (`MO`_ files) before they can be used in the application. This
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425 compilation is handled by ``msgfmt`` utility from `GNU gettext`_
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426 tools. ``GNUmakefile`` in the ``locale`` directory automatically
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427 compiles all existing message catalogs after updating them from
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428 Roundup source files. If you wish to rebuild an individual `MO`_
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429 file without making everything else, you may, for example::
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431 $ msgfmt --statistics -o ru.mo ru.po
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433 This way, message translators can check their `PO`_ files without
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434 extracting strings from source. (Note: String extraction requires
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435 additional utility that is not part of `GNU gettext`_. See `Extracting
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436 Translatable Messages`_.)
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438 At run time, Roundup automatically compiles message catalogs whenever
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439 `PO`_ file is changed.
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441 .. _`Customising Roundup`: customizing.html
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442 .. _`Roundup's Design Document`: spec.html
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443 .. _`implementation notes`: implementation.html
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446 .. _External hyperlink targets:
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448 .. _alexander smishlajev:
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449 .. _als: https://sourceforge.net/u/a1s/profile/
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450 .. _cygwin: https://www.cygwin.com/
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451 .. _emacs: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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452 .. _gettext package: http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
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453 .. _gettext module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/gettext.html
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454 .. _GNU: http://www.gnu.org/
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455 .. _GNU mirror sites: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
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456 .. _issue tracker: https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/
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457 .. _Lokalize: Lokalize
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458 .. _KDE: https://kde.org/
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459 .. _linux: https://www.linux.org/
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460 .. _Plural Forms:
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461 http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
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462 .. _po filetype plugin:
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463 https://vim.sourceforge.io/scripts/script.php?script_id=695
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464 .. _PO utilities: https://github.com/pinard/po-utils
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465 .. _poEdit: https://poedit.net/
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466 .. _Roundup Source:
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467 .. _Roundup source distribution:
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468 .. _Roundup binary distribution:
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469 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/files/
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470 .. _roundup-devel mailing list:
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471 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
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472 .. _TAL:
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473 .. _Template Attribute Language:
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474 https://pagetemplates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history/TALSpecification14.html
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475 .. _TALES:
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476 .. _Template Attribute Language Expression Syntax:
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478 .. _vim: https://www.vim.org/
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479 .. _ZPTInternationalizationSupport: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/ZPTInternationalizationSupport
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