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Diffstat (limited to 'nova/openstack')
| -rw-r--r-- | nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py | 23 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py b/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py index b9993b491..2d2e94a7c 100644 --- a/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py +++ b/nova/openstack/common/gettextutils.py @@ -24,10 +24,27 @@ Usual usage in an openstack.common module: """ import gettext +import os - -t = gettext.translation('nova', 'locale', fallback=True) +_localedir = os.environ.get('nova'.upper() + '_LOCALEDIR') +_t = gettext.translation('nova', localedir=_localedir, fallback=True) def _(msg): - return t.ugettext(msg) + return _t.ugettext(msg) + + +def install(domain): + """Install a _() function using the given translation domain. + + Given a translation domain, install a _() function using gettext's + install() function. + + The main difference from gettext.install() is that we allow + overriding the default localedir (e.g. /usr/share/locale) using + a translation-domain-specific environment variable (e.g. + NOVA_LOCALEDIR). + """ + gettext.install(domain, + localedir=os.environ.get(domain.upper() + '_LOCALEDIR'), + unicode=True) |