[Kde-bindings] Using i18n

[Shaheed Haque]

Dear bindings team, is there a way to get this issue looked at?


On 3 May 2013 22:34, Shaheed Haque <srhaque at theiet.org> wrote:

> I wonder if we can get PyKDE4 fixed?
>
>
> On 3 May 2013 22:10, Shaheed Haque <srhaque at theiet.org> wrote:
>
>> Gah, I see what you mean.
>>
>> I guess I'd vote for any solution that minimised the amount of source
>> changes needed if/when i18n is fixed, so I like your idea of sticking in
>> the library. I guess anybody with an objection needs to speak up...
>>
>>
>> On 3 May 2013 21:17, Philipp A. <flying-sheep at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> well, it is:
>>>
>>> >>> from sys import version_info
>>> >>> version_info[:2]
>>> (3, 3)
>>> >>> from PyKDE4.kdecore import versionString, i18n
>>> >>> versionString()
>>> '4.10.2'
>>> >>> i18n('·'.encode('utf-8'))
>>> '·'
>>> >>> print(i18n('·'))
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xb7' in
>>> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
>>> note that the result of i18n *is* a unicode string, and i18n *accepts*
>>> unicode strings, but only if those unicode strings happen to only contain
>>> ascii – just like in the bad old python2 times.
>>>
>>> so i18n is buggy on KDE 4.10, and we have to work around it.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/5/3 Shaheed Haque <srhaque at theiet.org>
>>>
>>>> Just after I hit "send", I found this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com/msg14058.html
>>>>
>>>> which suggests this is not an issue???
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3 May 2013 20:42, Shaheed Haque <srhaque at theiet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Philipp,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3 May 2013 19:56, Philipp A. <flying-sheep at web.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, i’ve seen some uses of kdecore.i18n popping up in Paté plugins,
>>>>>> and have some recommendations:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. It takes more than one argument. so for the sake of consistency
>>>>>> instead of doing the ugly
>>>>>>     i18n(b'foo %(name)s.') % { 'name': 'bar'}
>>>>>> or even the better
>>>>>>     i18n(b'foo {name}.').format(name='bar')
>>>>>> we should do the Qt-style
>>>>>>     i18n(b'foo %1.', 'bar')
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1.  i18n takes byte strings. even on python3. this means that every
>>>>>> time a developer accustomed to python2 who doesn’t know it tries to use it,
>>>>>> the plugin WILL break for python3 users.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been using the argument syntax of the third form, but simply
>>>>> specified quoted strings (i.e. without the "b" prefix). Without really
>>>>> thinking about it, I had assumed that i18n would have done something
>>>>> plausible on Python2 (not sure exactly what though!), and on Python3 it
>>>>> would just be Unicode all the way. I'd certainly prefer not avoid having to
>>>>> use "b" all over the place.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/Werkov/PyQt4/blob/master/examples/tools/i18n/i18n.py
>>>>>
>>>>> seems to suggest that something like that is possible, but when I went
>>>>> looking for some docs on this, but could not see an obvious spec. Do you
>>>>> have a reference handy?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Shaheed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we have to come up with a solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> there is a possible solution here, but it involves a fairly
>>>>>> convoluted i18n replacement:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/applications/kate/repository/revisions/master/entry/addons/kate/pate/src/plugins/python_console_ipython/python_console_ipython.py#L36
>>>>>>
>>>>>> should we add that function to libkatepate and call it a day?
>>>>>>
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