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[Douglas Cerna <douglascerna@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everybody.

While working in the new CanDo, I've started to pay attention to i18n. Since CanDo depends on multiple packages, I was wondering what you guys think of mixing i18n domains and message factories across the code.

I mean, for example, I know the words/messages "Grade" and "Score" are also present in the gradebook. And we already have several translations for it there. Same with "Done" or "Add" in core, etc.

IMHO, i18n:domains are really easy to combine in ZPT, since you can attach it to one particular tag.

However, it becomes a little more work in Python code, because you need to use message factories, and the '_' shortcut is usually pointing to CanDo's message factory. If I'd like to use the 'Add' translation from core in a CanDo module, I'd need to:

from schooltool.common import SchoolToolMessage
...
button_label = SchoolToolMessage('Add')
...

which looks a bit heavy. I think we could have alternatives, but they would rely on developers knowledge of the current messages, like:

from schooltool.common import SchoolToolMessage as _core
...
button_label = _core('Add')
...

or:

from schooltool.gradebook import GradebookMessage as _gradebook
...
header = _gradebook('Score')
...

and so on. I think the i18n message extractor would ignore those, right?

And maybe we could generate an automatic list of "message id" -> "SchoolTool package" so we all know if a message is available and where it is. It could help us minimize the number of strings to translate.

What do you guys think? Is it worth? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill?

I'd appreciate your feedback on this.

Thanks.

Douglas

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