Re: Making my application international

[Gustavo Peredo <gustavomperedo gmail com>]

Thank you for your response! Unfortunately this didn't make the trick, but helped me gather some information. When running: $ strace -o file.log flatpak run <app.id>, I'm able to see some output referring to the locale I'm currently using:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/flatpak.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/flatpak.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/flatpak.mo", O_RDONLY) = 4
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo", O_RDONLY) = 4

While using a locale I didn't translate, the output is similar:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/ja_JP.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/flatpak.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/ja_JP.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/flatpak.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/flatpak.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません)

Unfortunately, I don't know how much this helps and the fact that it says "(No such file or directory)", doesn't help much... Do you know someone/somewhere else I can ask?

Em dom., 27 de set. de 2020 às 18:39, Rafael Fontenelle <rafaelff gnome org> escreveu:

Hello Gustavo,

Consider setting the "gettext.bindtextdomain()" (in src/main.py, I
think) as mentioned in
https://docs.python.org/pt-br/3/library/gettext.html

If the domain name is not set, the software will look for
"messages.mo" (the translation file in machine language) instead of
the proper e.g. "font-downloader.mo".

You can verify if that's the case by searching for "messages.mo":

$ strace -o file.log <executable>  (replace if the proper executable name/path)
$ grep messages.mo file.log

Best regards,
Rafael Fontenelle

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 7:29 PM Gustavo Peredo via gnome-i18n
<gnome-i18n gnome org> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your answer!
>
> After reading xgettext documentation I was able to generate my .po files, I created and edited two of them: en_GB and pt_BR. I added them to my /po directory and added en_GB and pt_BR to my LINGUAS file, no errors were shown during compilation nor when exporting the package. I installed the app on my machine but no translations were applied (My system locale is pt_BR)!
>
> Any clues on what I should do?
>
> Do you know somewhere else I can ask this question?
>
> PS: Also, you were right, many pages were outdated (were talking about GTK 2)
> Gustavo
>
> Em sáb., 26 de set. de 2020 às 13:02, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> escreveu:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 09:05 -0300, Gustavo Peredo via gnome-i18n wrote:
>> > TL; DR: How to begin translating a GTK Application using po?
>>
>> In theory: https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines
>>
>> In practice I'm not sure how heavily outdated some of those wiki pages
>> might be (meson etc). So this email might be useless in the end. :)
>>
>> andre
>> --
>> Andre Klapper  |  ak-47 gmx net
>> https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>>
>>
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