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| -rw-r--r-- | openstack/common/gettextutils.py | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/openstack/common/gettextutils.py b/openstack/common/gettextutils.py index 1e66538..efc6ec2 100644 --- a/openstack/common/gettextutils.py +++ b/openstack/common/gettextutils.py @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Usual usage in an openstack.common module: """ import gettext +import os t = gettext.translation('oslo', 'locale', fallback=True) @@ -31,3 +32,19 @@ t = gettext.translation('oslo', 'locale', fallback=True) def _(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) |