# HG changeset patch
# User Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk>
# Date 2009-01-14 23:12:35
# Node ID 85ae7aaf08e9de213f3cbfb63cdde999ddc43bca
# Parent  a489e3a94443d63d29528764443dead205d98ef3

i18n: lookup .mo files in private locale/ directory

This default is to look for /usr/share/locale/xx/LC_MESSAGES/hg.mo for
language xx, but this code will instead do the lookup from locale/ or
mercurial/locale/ relative to the root of the Mercurial source tree.

diff --git a/mercurial/i18n.py b/mercurial/i18n.py
--- a/mercurial/i18n.py
+++ b/mercurial/i18n.py
@@ -7,7 +7,20 @@ This software may be used and distribute
 of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
 """
 
-import gettext
-t = gettext.translation('hg', fallback=1)
+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)
 gettext = t.gettext
 _ = gettext