I think for now Anthony's proposal is the way to go. Open a ticket in
google code and we can think of other options.
On Jul 20, 5:53 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think there are a few possibilities. First, your MultiT function could
> work, but you'd have to use str(T(text)) instead of T(text). The reason is
> that T() returns a lazyT object, not the translated string (it isn't
> translated until rendering). You can force the translation by calling the
> lazyT.__str__ method via str(T(text)).
>
> Another option is to define your own T() objects for each language and force
> them to use the specific language. For example:
>
> In a model file:
> from gluon.languages import translator
> enT=translator(request)
> enT.force('en-en')
> esT=translator(request)
> esT.force('es-es')
>
> In a view:
> {{=esT('House')}} / {{=enT('House')}}
>
> It would probably be easy to abstract the above by defining a class that
> stores multiple T objects and lets you easily add additional ones.
>
> A third option might be to create a special multi-language translation file.
> For example, you could create a file called es-en.py, which could include
> translations such as:
>
> 'House': 'Casa / House'
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Anthony
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> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:22:23 PM UTC-4, demetrio wrote:
> > Hi everyone, i don't know if "Simultaneous multi-language system" is
> > the correct way to say what i need... i'll explain myself.
>
> > I'm developing an application that by request of our customer, needs
> > to have 2 languages at the same time. For example, if this app were in
> > spanish and english, in the navigator should appear something like:
>
> > Casa / House
>
> > In the view we want to do something like this
>
> > {{=T("House", "es-es")}} / {{=T("House", "en-en")}}
>
> > But i don't know if web2py can permit to do this or something like
> > that.
>
> > I was thinking of writing a function like this:
>
> > def MultiT(text,separator=" / "):
> > T.force("es-es")
> > ret_text = T(text)
> > T.force("en-en")
> > ret_text += separator + T(text)
> > return ret_text
>
> > But it does not work. Also, do not know how this affects the system
> > when updating the language files with the strings to translate (now
> > the files are updated automatically when pressing the "update
> > languages" button in admin, and I guess that it would make it on run
> > time.
>
> > Any sugestions?
>
> > Best regards
> > Daniel
