On Friday 26 August 2005 04:15 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > "Jon Monteleone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I have a program that currently displays all of its messages and > >instructions in only > > English. My boss wants me to change it all to Korean. Is there a python > > module that will > > automatically translate my English to Korean? > > You could write something that autosubmitted things to a translation site > like babelfish, Or just catenate all strings into one text and submit that.
That would be silly, though. ;-) > There is a system (that I have not used) for internaionalizing code that > keeps messages to be translated in a separate resource file. Name excapes > me at the moment though. I think you are looking for gettext. Check out the gettext module in Python, and do a little googling for "I18N" / "Internationalization" and/or "L14N" / "Localization" . That will probably turn up some how-tos for dealing with po files, etc. If you really want to throw caution to the wind and trust an auto-translation site instead of just finding someone who speaks fluent Korean and enough English, then you *could* send each of the statements in the *po* file through the translator and collect the responses. But if your boss wants this; you can ask the question here; and you can understand your boss, then you must have *someone* in your organization who speaks both languages, surely? Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
