Toshio Kuratomi added the comment:
Scratch what I said in
https://bugs.python.org/issue36837?@ok_message=msg%20342005%20created%0Aissue%2036837%20message_count%2C%20messages%20edited%20ok&@template=item#msg342005
GNU msgfmt does extract the charset correctly. (My previous test failed to
Toshio Kuratomi added the comment:
A note about the msgfmt problem. It looks like GNU gettext's msgfmt has a
similar problem but the msgfmt from pybabel does not. This may mean that we
need to change the gettext *Translation objects to be more tolerant of
non-ascii encodings (perhaps
Toshio Kuratomi added the comment:
Note, I've been doing some tests of how our gettext module differs from GNU
gettext and run into a few bugs and lack of features which make msgfmt unusable
and limit pygettext's usefulness.
* msgfmt doesn't seem to store the charset from the .po file into
Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:
One other suggestion: put the bulk of Tools/i18n/pygettext.py into
Lib/_pygettext.py, then import its main() in both Lib/gettext.py and
Tools/i18n/pygettext.py. Then just call that main().
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nosy: +barry
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New submission from Benjamin Kane :
Localizing a Python application involves using the `gettext` standard library
module to read .mo files. There are three scripts to assist with this in
https://github.com/bbkane/cpython/tree/master/Tools/i18n :
- makelocalealias.py : Convert the X11
