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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/devref/il8n.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst b/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst index ce708449d..900ea8a28 100644 --- a/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst +++ b/doc/source/devref/il8n.rst @@ -24,10 +24,14 @@ in nova/tests/test_localization.py. The ``_()`` function is brought into the global scope by doing:: - import gettext - gettext.install("nova", unicode=1) + from nova.openstack.common import gettextutils + gettextutils.install('nova') These lines are needed in any toplevel script before any nova modules are imported. If this code is missing, it may result in an error that looks like:: NameError: name '_' is not defined + +The gettextutils.install() function also queries the NOVA_LOCALEDIR environment +variable to allow overriding the default localedir with a specific custom +location for Nova's message catalog. |