[Mailman-Developers] multilingual mailman

[Dan Ohnesorg]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:27:40AM +0200, Gerhard Gonter wrote:
> >Are there any plans to for non-english user interfaces which can be
> >selected individually by the user or at least for a whole list?
> 
> I thought I heard there was somone working on adding support for
> internationalization, but I haven't heard anything about what approach
> is being used or it's status.
We are working on it, curently we are waiting on Barrys opinion to our
patches.



> 
> What about an approach that would use an interface like this:
> 
> 	setlang('German')
> 	print translang['ERROR: You have selected an invalid option ("%s")']
> 	print translang['       Please try again...']
> 
We are using GETTEXT package, so the translation is done like this:

import intl
setlocale()
_=intl.gettext

bindtexttodomain('mailman')

print _("Hello world")

It is a litle bit diferent in praxis, but not too.

cheers
dan



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