[Zope3-dev] Job Board Example

[Guido van Rossum]

> Indeed!  I love internationalization even more as a monolingual
> American. :)

Well, Google has a translation into "Elmer Fudd".  See
http://services.google.com/tcbin/tc.py?cmd=status -- it's a Python
script, although a buggy one -- 103% complete?!?!

>     GvR> You don't need the file='configure.zcml' part since that's
>     GvR> the default value. :-)
> 
> Ah, cut-n-paste from products.zcml.in, but we probably don't need that
> attribute in that file either (besides, the value is incorrect now;
> I'll remove it).

Too late, I already removed it. :-)

> Ah, ok, comment out one of the zmi:factory directives and they'll both
> work.

Yup.

> For now, the best steps are
> 
> - clone locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/jobboard.po to
>   locale/xx/LC_MESSAGES/jobboard.po where `xx' is your new language
>   code.

Did that.  Tip: don't use cp -a on the whole 'en' subdirectory. :-(

> - Edit your new jobboard.po to change the msgstr entries to the
>   translation in your language (po-mode in Emacs is really handy here;
>   let me know if you need a copy -- I don't think it comes with XEmacs
>   by default).

Done.  The example is so small it's not really needed.  However for
many translations with similar-sounding English versions I wasn't sure
what they stand for (and I spent hours today hacking the code :-).

> - Use msgfmt to generate the jobboard.mo file from the newly
>   translated jobboard.po file.

That was the only clue I was really missing (I found it minutes before
your email arrived :-).

> - Restart Zope.
> 
>     GvR> (3) I think I've hit a bug in the i18n code.  In the i18n
>     GvR> version, try to submit a job.  When I click on the preview
>     GvR> button, I get a traceback saying "TypeError: coercing to
>     GvR> Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found", at line 104
>     GvR> in SimpleTranslationService (in interpolate).
> 
> I get a different error using the English translation.  I get through
> Preview but when I hit Submit I get:

Hmm, I think I needed a cvs update.

> -------------------- snip snip --------------------
> AttributeError
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
> 
>     * Module Zope.Publisher.Publish, line 39, in publish
>     * Module Zope.App.ZopePublication.ZopePublication, line 117, in callObject
>     * Module Zope.Publisher.mapply, line 106, in mapply
>       __traceback_info__: <security proxied __builtin__.instance method instance at 0x861efec>
>     * Module ZopeProducts.JobBoardI18n.JobCreateView, line 18, in create
>     * Module Zope.PageTemplate.PageTemplate, line 95, in __call__
>     * Module Zope.PageTemplate.PageTemplate, line 113, in pt_render
>       Warning: Macro expansion failed
>       Warning: exceptions.AttributeError: 'Context' object has no attribute 'translate'
>     * Module Zope.TAL.TALInterpreter, line 164, in __call__
>     * Module Zope.TAL.TALInterpreter, line 203, in interpret
>     * Module Zope.TAL.TALInterpreter, line 529, in do_insertTranslation
>     * Module Zope.TAL.TALInterpreter, line 609, in translate
> 
> AttributeError: 'Context' object has no attribute 'translate'
> -------------------- snip snip --------------------

I now get this too.  I'm clueless in this part of Zope, so I'll leave
it to you & Stephan.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)