[openstack-dev] gettext question about oslo.i18n library

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Aug 15 20:02:47 UTC 2014


On Aug 15, 2014, at 3:18 AM, Peng Wu <peng.e.wu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  Recently I just read the code of oslo.i18n library,
>  The lazy translation idea is great!
> 
>  But I found a question about gettext "contextual markers"
>  and "plural form", such as pgettext and ungettext functions,
>  see [3].
> 
>  It seems the two gettext functions are missing in the oslo.i18n
> library.
>  Is it correct? or will support it?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Peng Wu

You’re right, those are not present.

We apparently haven’t used them anywhere, yet, because they weren’t exposed via the old gettextutils module in the incubator. We should add them. Are you interested in working on a blueprint for Kilo to do that?

Doug

> 
> Refer URL:
> 1. https://github.com/openstack/oslo.i18n
> 2.
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-July/039217.html
> 3. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/I18n/TranslatableStrings
> 
> 
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