Getting calibre's translated strings

modified · 07-16-2023, 08:51 PM

Hi all

I've made a plugin that can be localized. The plugin shares some common strings like "Cancel", "OK" with calibre itself, which I am manually duplicating right now from the calibre-translations GitHub repo.

This is not really optimal, so is there a way to gracefully fallback to or explicitly get calibre's translated strings?

kovidgoyal · 07-16-2023, 09:30 PM

_('OK') _('Cancel')

modified · 07-16-2023, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

_('OK') _('Cancel')

This doesn't work because the plugin has possibly a different gettext domain (??).

From calibre:

Code:

import gettext
print(
    "*** (%s) gettext domain=%s, _('Cancel')=%s"
    % (__name__, gettext.textdomain(), _("Cancel"))
)

Code:

*** (calibre.gui2) gettext domain=messages, _('Cancel')=취소

From plugin that is localized:

Code:

import gettext
print(
    "*** (%s) gettext domain=%s, _('Cancel')=%s"
    % (__name__, gettext.textdomain(), _("Cancel"))
)

Code:

*** (calibre_plugins.overdrive_libby.action) gettext domain=messages, _('Cancel')=Cancel

modified · 07-17-2023, 01:18 AM

I was able to what I wanted by importing _ from calibre.utils.localization and not using the builtin _()

Code:

from calibre.utils.localization import _ as _c

print(_c('Cancel'))

07-16-2023, 08:51 PM	#1
modified Connoisseur Posts: 90 Karma: 50742 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: PW5	Getting calibre's translated strings Hi all I've made a plugin that can be localized. The plugin shares some common strings like "Cancel", "OK" with calibre itself, which I am manually duplicating right now from the calibre-translations GitHub repo. This is not really optimal, so is there a way to gracefully fallback to or explicitly get calibre's translated strings?

07-17-2023, 01:18 AM	#4
modified Connoisseur Posts: 90 Karma: 50742 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: PW5	I was able to what I wanted by importing _ from calibre.utils.localization and not using the builtin _() Code: from calibre.utils.localization import _ as _c print(_c('Cancel'))

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07-16-2023, 09:30 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,866 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	_('OK') _('Cancel')

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