On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:21 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
<leo-editor@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Maybe not adding much here, but my just guessing haven't done
> it myself impression of the most general approach to localization is
> that all in code strings are wrapped in a function call, with the
> function often being called `_` to minimize its intrusiveness.  E.g
>
>   g.es("No @file nodes in tree")
>
> becomes
>
>   g.es(_("No @file nodes in tree"))

That should not be necessary.  The convention that odd-numbered args
get translated is equivalent to wrapping odd-numbered args x in calls
to _(x).  The convention allows you to mix translated and untranslated
arguments.  For example:

    g.es('can not open',fileName)  # Translate 'can not open' but not fileName.

> Leo will be a bit more complicated because of the way it uses plain
> text as a data type.  How would we distinguish non-translatable text,
> e.g.
>
>   @string body-font-family = @font-family
>
> non-translatable in the sense that
>
>   @string körper-sind-familie = @sind-familie

Correct.  It would require significant work to translate settings.

> But I don't see any reason the _("") part couldn't be worked on - apart
> from adding the _("")

The only thing needed to translate log messages is to get the call to
gettext.gettext(s) inside g.translateString to work properly.

Edward

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