On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Brian Rosmaita <
brian.rosma...@rackspace.com> wrote:
> This issue came up during a code review; I've asked around a bit but
> haven't been able to find an answer.
>
> Some of the help output for utility scripts associated with Glance aren't
> being translated, so Li Wei put up a patch to fix this [0], but there are
> at least two problematic cases.
>
> Case 1:
> parser.add_option('-S', '--os_auth_strategy', dest="os_auth_strategy",
> metavar="STRATEGY",
> help=_("Authentication strategy (keystone or noauth)."))
>
> For that one, 'keystone' and 'noauth' are identifiers, so we don't want
> them translated. Would putting single quotes around them like this be
> sufficient to indicate they shouldn't be translated? For example,
>
> help=_("Authentication strategy ('keystone' or 'noauth').")
>
>
one option is, don't put the non-translated words in the _(""); for example:
help=_("Authentication strategy (%r or %r).") % ('keystone', 'noauth')
>
> Andreas Jaeger mentioned that maybe we could use a "translation comment"
> [1]. I guess we'd do something like:
>
> # NOTE: do not translate the stuff in single quotes
> help=_("Authentication strategy ('keystone' or 'noauth').")
>
>
> What are other people doing for this?
>
> Case 2:
> We've got a big block of usage text, roughly
>
> usage = _("""
> %prog <command> [options] [args]
>
> Commands:
> keyword1 what it does
> keyword2 what it does
> ...
> keyword8 what it does
> """)
>
> We don't want the keywords to be translated, but I'm not sure how to
> convey this to the translators.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> brian
>
>
> [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/367795/8
> [1] http://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/messages.html#translator-comments
>
>
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