[Yum-devel] A huge datapoint/testcase for the i18n problems, and possible fix

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 01:44 -0400, James Antill wrote:

>  So the one line patch[1] would make translated messages have the same
> type that non-translated ones do now ... and _seems_ to work (I'm asking
> the reporters now, if it fixes it for them too).
[...]
> [1] The patch is:
> 
> diff --git a/yum/i18n.py b/yum/i18n.py
> index f735edd..dcab01e 100644
> --- a/yum/i18n.py
> +++ b/yum/i18n.py
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ try:
>      '''
>      import gettext
>      t = gettext.translation('yum')
> -    _ =  t.ugettext
> +    _ =  t.gettext
>  except:
>      '''
>      Something went wrong so we make a dummy _() wrapper there is just

 Yeh, so this doesn't fix it ... as this is just making the yum gettext
calls be in text, not the rpm gettext calls. And it turns out that it's
not a weird rpm msg either, it's a yum message:

import gettext

t = gettext.translation('yum')
_ =  t.ugettext
sys.stdout.write(_('GPG key retrieval failed: '))

...this fails when run with LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8.
 We've checked in something that seems to fix it, but I assume the above
is also broken ... and I'm not sure how we can guarantee we don't have
problems like that (run a python script on the .po files that tries to
load each message?)

-- 
James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>
Red Hat
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