I think there are a few possibilities. First, your MultiT function could
work, but you'd have to use str(T(text)) instead of T(text). The reason is
that T() returns a lazyT object, not the translated string (it isn't
translated until rendering). You can force the translation by calling the
lazyT.__str__ method via str(T(text)).
Another option is to define your own T() objects for each language and force
them to use the specific language. For example:
In a model file:
from gluon.languages import translator
enT=translator(request)
enT.force('en-en')
esT=translator(request)
esT.force('es-es')
In a view:
{{=esT('House')}} / {{=enT('House')}}
It would probably be easy to abstract the above by defining a class that
stores multiple T objects and lets you easily add additional ones.
A third option might be to create a special multi-language translation file.
For example, you could create a file called es-en.py, which could include
translations such as:
'House': 'Casa / House'
Hope that helps.
Anthony
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:22:23 PM UTC-4, demetrio wrote:
> Hi everyone, i don't know if "Simultaneous multi-language system" is
> the correct way to say what i need... i'll explain myself.
>
> I'm developing an application that by request of our customer, needs
> to have 2 languages at the same time. For example, if this app were in
> spanish and english, in the navigator should appear something like:
>
> Casa / House
>
> In the view we want to do something like this
>
> {{=T("House", "es-es")}} / {{=T("House", "en-en")}}
>
> But i don't know if web2py can permit to do this or something like
> that.
>
> I was thinking of writing a function like this:
>
> def MultiT(text,separator=" / "):
> T.force("es-es")
> ret_text = T(text)
> T.force("en-en")
> ret_text += separator + T(text)
> return ret_text
>
> But it does not work. Also, do not know how this affects the system
> when updating the language files with the strings to translate (now
> the files are updated automatically when pressing the "update
> languages" button in admin, and I guess that it would make it on run
> time.
>
> Any sugestions?
>
> Best regards
> Daniel
