mercurial/i18n.py

# i18n.py - internationalization support for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2, incorporated herein by reference.

import encoding
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.join(base, dir, 'locale')
    if os.path.isdir(localedir):
        break

t = gettext.translation('hg', localedir, fallback=True)

def gettext(message):
    """Translate message.

    The message is looked up in the catalog to get a Unicode string,
    which is encoded in the local encoding before being returned.

    Important: message is restricted to characters in the encoding
    given by sys.getdefaultencoding() which is most likely 'ascii'.
    """
    # If message is None, t.ugettext will return u'None' as the
    # translation whereas our callers expect us to return None.
    if message is None:
        return message

    u = t.ugettext(message)
    try:
        # encoding.tolocal cannot be used since it will first try to
        # decode the Unicode string. Calling u.decode(enc) really
        # means u.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding()).decode(enc). Since
        # the Python encoding defaults to 'ascii', this fails if the
        # translated string use non-ASCII characters.
        return u.encode(encoding.encoding, "replace")
    except LookupError:
        # An unknown encoding results in a LookupError.
        return message

_ = gettext