i'll start with the Anthony suggestion.
I've opened the ticket:
http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=342
Thank you to everybody
2011/7/21 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>
> I think for now Anthony's proposal is the way to go. Open a ticket in
> google code and we can think of other options.
>
> On Jul 20, 5:53 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
