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On 9/6/2015 12:18 AM, Steve Martinelli wrote:
> Isn't this just a matter of setting up novaclient for translation? IIRC
> using _() is harmless if there's no translation bits set up for the project.
>
> Thanks,
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> Steve Martinelli
> OpenStack Keystone Core
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> Inactive hide details for Matt Riedemann ---2015/09/04 01:50:54 PM---I
> noticed this today: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/219Matt Riedemann
> ---2015/09/04 01:50:54 PM---I noticed this today:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/219768/
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> From: Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
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> Date: 2015/09/04 01:50 PM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [nova][i18n] Is there any point in using _() in
> python-novaclient?
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> I noticed this today:
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> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/219768/
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> And it got me thinking about something I've wondered before - why do we
> even use _() in python-novaclient?  It doesn't have any .po files for
> babel message translation, it has no babel config, there is nothing in
> setup.cfg about extracting messages and compiling them into .mo's, there
> is nothing on Transifex for python-novaclient, etc.
>
> Is there a way to change your locale and get translated output in nova
> CLIs?  I didn't find anything in docs from a quick google search.
>
> Comparing to python-openstackclient, that does have a babel config and
> some locale po files in tree, at least for de and zh_TW.
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> So if this doesn't work in python-novaclient, do we need any of the i18n
> code in there?  It doesn't really hurt, but it seems pointless to push
> changes for it or try to keep user-facing messages in mind in the code.
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> Thanks,
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> Matt Riedemann
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Yeah, doffm is working on enabling i18n for python-novaclient via bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-novaclient/+bug/1492444

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann