Tinkerer translation

Bernhard Grotz

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Feb 22, 2012, 4:41:14 AM2/22/12

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Hi people!

What has to be done to create a new translation / language support for Tinkerer?
Is there already an unicode-support (e.g. for german umlaute as ä,ö,ü), or what
would be necessary to reach this?

Any hints are welcome.

Thanks in advance,

Bernhard

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Vlad Riscutia

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Feb 22, 2012, 11:31:56 AM2/22/12

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Hi,

Latest Tinkerer release already included a Spanish and a Catalan translation. You can look at this changeset to see what was done: https://bitbucket.org/vladris/tinkerer/changeset/a1db304e098a. We are using Python's gettext module to translate the page elements. Non-English characters should work.

Thank you,

Vlad

Bernhard Grotz

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Feb 23, 2012, 4:50:46 PM2/23/12

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Hi Vlad,

* Vlad Riscutia <riscut...@gmail.com> [22.02.2012 17:36]:

> Latest Tinkerer release already included a Spanish and a Catalan
> translation. You can look at this changeset to see what was done:
> https://bitbucket.org/vladris/tinkerer/changeset/a1db304e098a. We are using
> Python's gettext module to translate the page elements. Non-English
> characters should work.

thanks for your quick reply.

I tried out gettext (pygettext and msgfmt), and it looks really simple.
Nevertheless there occurs the following error if I try to use german umlaute
inside a msgstr.

WARNING: a Unicode error occurred when rendering the page 2012/02/23/hello_world. Please make sure all config values that contain non-ASCII content are Unicode strings.

Putting an 'u' before the msgstr attribute in the .pot file does not work:
msgfmt raises a syntax error then because it interpretes something like
msgstr u"Schlagwörter" as a unknown tag.

I think tinker itself must handle such non-ascii string content.. do you have
any idea on how to solve this issue?

Both german locale files (.pot and .mo) are attached.

Greetings,

Bernhard

P.S.: Umlaute inside posts and pages are handled well.

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Vlad Riscutia

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Feb 23, 2012, 5:27:46 PM2/23/12

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Thanks for the translation!

I'm personally not very familiar with gettext but I will try to take a look at this probably during the weekend. What version of Python are you using?

Thank you,

Vlad

Vlad Riscutia

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Feb 27, 2012, 2:47:57 AM2/27/12

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Bernhard,

I figured out what was going wrong (by default Python 2 strings are not Unicode) and added your translation.